Leythos wrote:
> In article <1162186501.862987.318910@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
> nskrepetos@yahoo.com says...
> > What needs to happen is education - not the, typically uneducated,
> > propaganda of saying "ActiveX is bad". I think this will make a great
> > blog topic for this weeks security blog:
> > http://superantispyware.blogspot.com
> >
> > Understand, I am not targeting you here - it just is time that people
> > truely understand the facts and properly educate instead of just
> > reiterating a canned "ActiveX is bad"
>
> ActiveX is a sign that the website developer didn't follow the standards
> for browser compatibility. Don't get me wrong, I have written many AX
> controls, but I don't do it any more.
>
> There is no need for ActiveX, in fact, while ActiveX is not the real
> problem, it's the common delivery method. That's like saying that
> Gasoline is not a threat, but people still get killed in fires started
> with it.
>
> I will tell people that ActiveX is bad for now, as there are too many
> people using it to make malicious code, and there are a LOT of people
> not using it any more, because of that fact.
>
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This is not a personal attack but I am trying to make people understand
the actual dangers, not the propaganda....

"ActiveX is a sign that the website developer didn't follow the
standards for browser compatibility" ??? There are two browsers in use
by 99% of the surfing public. That's yet even more uneducated
propaganda (you should no better than this) - There are basically two
platforms used to surfing the web by the "average" user (yes, I know
Opera, Safari, etc. etc.) - IE and Mozilla/Firefox - so sites that want
to do things such as our File Research Center, Online Virus/Spyware
scanning, etc. should use those technologies (ActiveX/XPCOM) to create
that type of software. The alternative is writing things in Java - but,
in my opinion that would be a waste of our resources - it is slower and
we would have to rewrite our complete engines. Java can infect the same
way ActiveX/XPCOM can.

Why not educate people to look where they are surfing and learn how to
see if a site is good or bad vs just telling them "ActiveX is bad" - if
people were not surfing porn and trying to steal software, and get
everything for free 99.99% of infections would not happen. It's like
having unprotected sex - bad things can happen if you don't take safety
precautions and learn what you are doing....

This is why we get people saying our site (and others) is/are bad -
because people tell them ActiveX is bad. Do you tell people Cars are
bad? Planes are bad? Gasoline is bad? Java also can infect a machine
just as easily as ActiveX, do you tell people Java is bad? What about
videos......those infect machines - do you tell everyone videos are bad
too?

This is very interesting to me - people are completely misinformed -
this is why education of the public is so important - and people in the
front lines with "techical backgrounds" should educate the people as
you have the power to do so and should understand the facts and truths
and not just say "ActiveX is bad"........we, the technical users are
the ones that can make the difference.....so why not start?

Nick Skrepetos
SUPERAntiSpyware.com
http://www.superantispyware.com