active x control?

Question

If I disable most or all of the active x controls, will I be prompted when landing on a site that needs one?

Answer 1

Yes for sure. You only want to allow the download of an "active x" control from a trusted site. This is two fold, you may know the site, and allow the "active x", download, provided it is in relationship to the software that requires the "active x".

Myself I will deny any "active x", add-on that is unknown, or appears to have no relationship to the software I want to download.

At the top of your tools, the info., is always shown. And many times it will say that the "active x", is from an unknown company that wants to add-on. I deny.

Sorry my english is not great, hope the above is of help.

Minddoctor, France

Answer 2

A control using ActiveX technologies. An ActiveX control can be automatically downloaded and executed by a Web browser. ActiveX is not a programming language, but rather a set of rules for how applications should share information. Programmers can develop ActiveX controls in a variety of languages, including C, C++, Visual Basic, and Java. An ActiveX control is similar to a Java applet. Unlike Java applets, however, ActiveX controls have full access to the Windows operating system. This gives them much more power than Java applets, but with this power comes a certain risk that the applet may damage software or data on your machine. To control this risk, Microsoft developed a registration system so that browsers can identify and authenticate an ActiveX control before downloading it. Another difference between Java applets and ActiveX controls is that Java applets can be written to run on all platforms, whereas ActiveX controls are currently limited to Windows environments. Related to ActiveX is a scripting language called VBScript that enables Web authors to embed interactive elements in HTML documents.

Answer 3

most activex controls that can be exploited to preform malicious actions are already blocked by default and you'll be prompted if you want to install and/or activate them on that certain page. if you've changed your security settings to a higher level or just manually blocked specific activex controls it will still prompt you up top if you'd like to install/run the control.

Answer 4

If you disable active x controls then yer dang windows media player wont work right...and ye may have hell on yer hands getting it to work right once you done that

Answer 5

yes
if you keep your microsoft firewall up to date

Answer 6

normaly, yes.