[thelist] Active-X Controls

Eike Pierstorff eike.pierstorff at dynamique.de
Thu Jan 16 02:15:01 CST 2003


At 17:03 15.01.2003 -0500, you wrote:
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>IE requires Active-X controls to be enabled for pdf files to
>automatically be viewed.
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>Is there away around this?
>
>Sam
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The german computer magazine c't published a tool called IEController that
gives you mor control about IE
(http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/iecontroller/).
IE creates Com Objects to execute Scripts and Programms and IEController
prevents him from doing so.
You can enable/disable JS-Script/VB-Script/Java/Flash/Acrobat Reader
seperatly (instead of turning everything off). With some more Configuration
you can also enable/disable any COM Object with a given Class ID.
However, c't said it's more a 'proof of concept' thing than a real security
tool, and you can sse why - with Windows 2000/XP you need local Admin right
to run the program.

-- eike



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