Thursday, November 15, 2007

Top o' the day

QUESTION: How can I prevent Web sites from accessing the local clipboard on
my computer?

ANSWER:
If the security level for your Internet zones (Tools, Internet
Options, Security) in Internet Explorer 5.0 or later is set to
High, you're already preventing Web sites from accessing your
local clipboard.

However, if your security level isn't set to High and you still wish
to prevent IE's dynamic HTML from accessing your Web site, you should
disable the "Allow paste operations via script" option. Here's
the procedure:

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Go to Tools, Internet Options and click on the Security tab.
3. Select the Internet zone and click Custom Level.
4. Under the Scripting section, configure the "Allow paste operations
via script" option to Disable and then click OK. In IE 7.0, the
option is called "Allow Programmatic clipboard access."

Courtesy of: Zubair Alexander, MCSE, MCT, MCSA and Microsoft MVP

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