RE: FLASH: Windows Security

[Brian Tietz]

Hello,


	I've run into this problem myself. The exact message that will appear when

runing Internet Explorer

is this:


An ActiveX control on this page is not safe.

Your current security settings prohibit running unsafe controls on this

page. As a result, this page may not display as intended.


Now what I would do is change my security setting under Windows when using

The Internet Explorer for Internet usage to Medium (more secure). This will

show all Flash related media corectly with no enteruptions but will still

provide the security that your big corporations are looking for. I mean when

ever something that could be quoted as "potentialy damaging

to your computer" comes around a warning message will appear (Although when

viewing flash related material no warning will show!).


Other than that you can go in and make up your own security settings, but

this would have to be done on every client

machine that will be viewing flash!


Hope this helps,




Brian Tietz

kf6ntgpon [dot] net

PC Tecnician/web desinger

AM Computers, http://am.net/kf6ntg



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Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 10:04 PM

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flashershocker [dot] com

Subject: FLASH: Windows Security



I've been asked about this, told about this and I believe it was

mentioned briefly on this list. In Windows (I believe ... I don't know

of this on Mac) if the security level is set high or very high (again, I

don't know the the technical speak) a flash .swf will not be able to be

read. What is this about? One client is wondering what can be done to

overcome this. Is there an auto detect to see if there is a plugin

*plus* if the user has security set to high? Have there been any work

arounds?


Anyone know what I'm talking about?


This company is worried about this because the audience they want to aim

for are big corporations who probably would have high security set up on

their NT machines, making the site unviewable. Should I just have a

flash/nonflash entry page? I've been told that this could also lead to a

crash if trying to view the Flash.


I need some info on this and maybe some other problems that may occur in

general (html, dhtml, java) if security is set high.


thanks for your time





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