Webwasher 6.0.1 Anti-Malware User's Guide - McAfee

ActiveX Controls
The ActiveX Controls section looks like this:
Using this section, you can configure actions for ActiveX controls.
Content Security
This is potentially malicious code, which is used by the Microsoft products to
enable interaction between servers, clients and applications. This code can
access data on your hard drive, making it also extremely dangerous in terms
of corporate data security.
For the purpose of filtering ActiveX controls, they are entered in a list. To view
and edit this list, go to the ActiveX List tab.
You can configure different actions for ActiveX controls found in Web and
e-mail traffic.
If you want to filterActiveX controls, mark the checkbox next to the section
heading.
After specifying this setting or any other setting in this section, click on Apply
Changes to make these settings effective.
Use the following drop-down lists to configure the filtering of ActiveX controls:
• Default action for unlisted ActiveX found in HTML
Select default actions here that should be executed if an ActiveX control is
found in HTML code and is not listed on the ActiveX List.
• Entry from ActiveX List found in HTML
Select actions here that should be executed if an ActiveX control is found
in HTML code and is listed on the ActiveX List.
• Default action for unlisted ActiveX found in Office document
Select default actions here that should be executed if an ActiveX control is
found in an office document and is not listed on the ActiveX List.
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