Die InfectMeX, Die!

[vakkotaur]

If I had the option of using a decent browser at work, it would be a non-issue. But I'm stuck with the wretched thing that is IE, due to an IE-specific proxy. Since I must use IE, I at least plug a few of the holes in it. One such hole is "ActiveX" which I keep firmly disabled.

Most of the time this is not a problem. But some pages do have some (unnecessary) InfectMeX garbage on them and then IE complains about it as some Microsoft moron in ever so finite wisdom decided that if someone disables their security sieve, that someone should be harassed about it.

Unfortunately my voice post of a few days ago has some ActiveX trash in it, put there by LJ. So whenever I load my own LJ page, I get the stupid "warning" that I don't have InfectMeX enabled: Your security settings prohibit running InfectMeX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly. Of course not, there's a stupid fricking dialog in the way, and IE will sit there and not finish displaying the page until the offending harassalog box is closed.

It's annoying. I want to switch it off, ideally at the browser, but still have the regular page load properly. I don't need a reminder that I turned InfectMeX off. Irritating me about it won't make me turn InfectMeX back on. I'd like to disable its inclusion anywhere at all on my LJ, at least. That option seems to likewise suffer from existence failure.

I should not have to put a post behind an LJ cut just to not be harassed by a Broken-As-Designed browser. But that's what I'm stuck doing. It's not a real solution as it leaves the problem intact only hidden somewhat.

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

You might want to delete your voicepost, that'd make the confirmation message box stop popping up.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I considered that and it was tempting. I prefer not to delete posts. While the test post would be no big deal, the InfectMeX trouble remains for the future when I might have a real voice post to make. Thing is, now I have a reason not to make one.

This (http://dmbhosting-web-hosting-blog.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-you-ready-for-activex-d-day.html) offers a glimmer of hope. If the guideline is followed (Yeah, right. Oh well, I can dream.) it would mean that some InfectMeX crap would only be loaded via javascript. Not only javascript is something else I keep normally disabled, but the browser doesn't whine at me about it. Some web pages do, but if they want to look daft, that's their business.

ActiveX is the epitome of "suck."

[yakko.livejournal.com]

What's happening in the case of a voice post is that the widget to play it uses Flash, and apparently the preferred way of running Flash under IE is via the CrappyX control. So LJ has both an <object> (for CrapX) and an <embed> (for everyone else) to get "all" browsers which support Flash.

Re: ActiveX is the epitome of "suck."

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

Ah, that explains how I was seeing it in Safari - and why my S2 style had a problem with it when they first went live with the feature.