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Originally Posted by Qliveur
I just got the canned IE warning that something was trying to install an ActiveX control when I clicked on Rhett's birthday thread.
Don't now if it's relevant, but I'd never experienced anything like that on this forum before now.
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That would be something originating from one of the banner ads. No functionality on Lucasforums requires ActiveX to work.
Unfortunately what banners get served is mostly out of our control; it is determined by the advertisement companies. As far as I understand it the LF staff can at most complain about specific ads and ask for them to be removed from the rotation here.
In general you should never allow a site to run ActiveX controls unless you are 100% certain of what it does, where it comes from and that it is needed for the site to work properly (like when using Windows Update, for example).