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1. INSTALL ACTIVEX CONTROL WINDOWS VISTA INSTALL
2. INSTALL ACTIVEX CONTROL WINDOWS VISTA CODE
3. INSTALL ACTIVEX CONTROL WINDOWS VISTA PC

With DEP turned on, IE7 would (safely) crash every time the Java plugin tried to load secure, but irritating. IE7 unfortunately shipped with DEP disabled although MS speaks vaguely only of "incompatibilities" and doesn't name names, the principal reason for this was that for many years after the introduction of DEP, Sun persistently failed to produce Java plugins that worked correctly with DEP enabled.

INSTALL ACTIVEX CONTROL WINDOWS VISTA CODE

Data Execution Protection can reduce the impact that the all-too-common buffer overflow exploit can have, by making it harder to insert hostile code into a running program. For something with as many security holes as Flash, this would certainly be desirable.Ī previous IE blog entry described another significant security alteration in IE8. Although some popular controls will, by default, be allowed to work on all domains (Flash, for example), this capability should allow whitelists to be built for any plugin. This kind of restriction has already been possible for plugins that are explicitly coded to work that way with IE8, the per-site limitation can be applied to any ActiveX control. Although this cannot remove the security issue in the control, it will reduce the exposure. With per-site restrictions, that risk is mitigated the plugin can be restricted to the controlled intranet environment, and blocked everywhere else. Take that same ActiveX control and expose it to the (hostile) global Internet, and it might become "unsafe", because people on the Internet can, and do, exploit buggy ActiveX controls. An ActiveX control that has a security bug might be "safe" in the confines of the corporate intranet site that used the control, because the intranet site might not do anything to exploit the bug. Currently, most ActiveX controls are global in nature once installed, any web page can make use of them. The other significant ActiveX security change is that it will be possible to restrict ActiveX controls to specific domains. This mechanism will also be configurable through group policy an organization with a locked down user desktop will probably want to disable even per-user ActiveX installation.

Although IE8 will be released for Windows XP, this particular feature won't be available on that platform. Users will also have to be running Windows Vista (or Windows Server 2008). Unfortunately, this isn't something that can be applied retrospectively to pre-existing controls. To support this, the authors of ActiveX controls-such as the Flash plugin, Java Runtimes, and Microsoft's own Silverlight-will have to package their controls in a special way to enable per-user installation. This is in contrast to the current situation, where ActiveX controls must be installed globally, and so can compromise any user. Although the control may still be bad and exploitable, it will only be able to harm the user who has it installed.

INSTALL ACTIVEX CONTROL WINDOWS VISTA INSTALL

With this feature, regular user accounts will be able to install ActiveX controls privately, to their own user profile. The biggest of these changes is that Administrator rights will no longer be required to install ActiveX controls. The IE blog has recently given details of what we can expect.

With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft's forthcoming version of its embattled browser, steps will be taken to further reduce the exposure caused by ActiveX. Although much of the criticism leveled at ActiveX is excessively harsh, binary browser plugins-that can do just about anything the user can do-do have security concerns.

INSTALL ACTIVEX CONTROL WINDOWS VISTA PC

ActiveX has long been regarded as a thorn in the side of Windows users everywhere a gaping hole through which spyware and viruses can contaminate your PC and compromise your data.