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Microsoft Drops IE's 'Click to Activate' ActiveX Controls

Gregg Keizer writes on ComputerWorld:

Microsoft Corp. will strip a "click to activate" warning from Internet Explorer 7 starting next month, a company product manager said yesterday, a side benefit of the settlement that Microsoft struck with Eolas Technologies Inc. in August.

Next month, Microsoft will preview the modified Internet Explorer (IE) that eliminates the warning that's been popping up on screens when users select multimedia content, such as clicking on a link to a Flash file or a PDF document. That notice first appeared in IE in April 2006, when Microsoft began requiring users to approve ActiveX controls the first time they were run from the browser.

More here.

Note: So, does this mean that malicious ActiveX controls can now be installed automagically? -ferg

posted by Fergie @ 11/10/2007 02:03:00 PM