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Mike Hale
New member
Username: Mikehale
Post Number: 1
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 24, 2006 - 6:45 am: |   |
Is there a workaround for the follwing I.E. message. "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options." I noticed on the virtual tours samples page here, this does not occur. |
John Strait
Moderator
Username: Jstrait
Post Number: 270
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 12:57 pm: | |
Microsoft added this warning message with Windows XP Service Pack 2. It has to be one of the most irritating security changes they made in SP 2.
The logic behind this warning is that active content (Javascript, ActiveX, Java, etc.) in a web page has more freedom when run from a web page in a local file. Web pages downloaded from an internet web site run in a more restricted security zone that prevents many potential malicious actions. However, the local security zone is less restrictive than the internet security zone. So according to Microsoft, local web pages are more dangerous than internet web pages!
The workaround is to use the Mark of the Web to force local web pages to run in the internet security zone. This restricts them in the same way as if they were downloaded from an internet web site.
To add the Mark of the Web to a web page, just add this line at the top of the HTML file:
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet --> Note: The HTML comment must be properly formatted for Internet Explorer to parse the information correctly. Proper format includes inserting a space immediately following the opening delimiter " <!-- " and just before the closing delimiter " --> ".
In order to avoid having to edit every HTML file generated by The Panorama Factory, you should add this line to the top of each HTML file in The Panorama Factory's template folder. This folder is typically:
c:\Program Files\Smoky City Design\The Panorama Factory V4\Templates Thereafter, each HTML file created by The Panorama Factory will automatically include the Mark of the Web.
We will include this change to the template files in the next release of The Panorama Factory, V4.4.
For more information about the Mark of the Web, read the web page What is the Mark of the Web? at msdn.microsoft.com.
(Message edited by jstrait on July 25, 2006) |
Mike Hale
New member
Username: Mikehale
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 6:10 pm: | |
Thanks John, that workaround worked perfect! |
David Richardson
New member
Username: Customdavid
Post Number: 5
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 8:33 pm: | |
John -
Thank you so much for this. I have also been frustrated by this. Does seem really odd that MS has a work around for a security patch. Hope hackers don't figure that out :-).
David |
John Strait
Moderator
Username: Jstrait
Post Number: 271
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 28, 2006 - 10:36 am: | |
As I understand it, the workaround does not compromise security in any way. Its effect is to lock down the local web page to the same security level as a page downloaded from the internet. Because this increases the security for the local page, Internet Explorer does not need to show the warning message.
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Allan Akers
New member
Username: Allanakers
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - 5:40 am: | |
Thanks John, I have been having a nightmare over this, the workaround works great. Will get a few clients off my back now.
Cheers. |
