ActiveX Controls and the Internet

You can use a number of techniques to protect your system from harmful content such as a control written to destroy data on your hard drive. This lesson explains how users and developers can implement security to control the type of content that is downloaded from a Web page.

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After this lesson, you will be able to:

• Explain how users of Internet Explorer can control the types of content they download from the Web.
• Describe how you, as a developer can guarantee that a control is safe to be used on a Web page.

Estimated lesson time 25 minutes

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