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My company is finally rolling out the critical, and increasingly inescapable Micro$oft Security Patch MS06-021<\/a>.  This cumulative patch includes lawsuit-required code to break (or at least bend) ActiveX controls<\/a>.  Rather than the controls executing automatically in IE upon page load, you’ll get little prompts to click on them.<\/p>\n

Press SPACEBAR or ENTER to activate and use this control<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Developers have a way to bypass the prompt, but many of them haven’t done it yet (since M$ has gone back and forth on whether it’s needed), and, of course, various sites and systems may not have incorporated  said patches.  <\/p>\n

(Those of us who run Firefox don’t have the problem because we don’t run ActiveX, which is both more secure and occasionally annoying for accessing those sites that require it.)<\/p>\n

So if you see this yourself, or get calls to your helpdesk about it — that’s the scoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My company is finally rolling out the critical, and increasingly inescapable Micro$oft Security Patch MS06-021.  This cumulative patch includes lawsuit-required code to break (or at least bend) ActiveX controls.  Rather…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6825,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/24\/big_media_compa.html","url_meta":{"origin":9387,"position":0},"title":"Big Media Companies have to stick together, after all …","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Dec-04 2:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite frequent assertions by some Firefox advocates that they only use Internet Explorer for Windows Update tasks, I continue to run across sites that either don't work under Firefox (because...","rel":"","context":"In "Disney\/Pixar"","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/the-adobe-store-continues-to-annoy.html","url_meta":{"origin":9387,"position":1},"title":"The Adobe store continues to annoy","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Mar-09 2:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Purchasing things online via the Adobe store continues to be an annoying struggle each time I do it. 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