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How to disable Active Script in Internet Explorer
Active Scripts are programs written in JavaScript, or sometimes Microsoft's VBScript and ActiveX, that enable Web sites to add specific functionality. Unfortunately, more than a few well-known vulnerabilities have been discovered within Active Script, and criminal hackers have seized upon this potential. Until a specific patch can be issued, Microsoft often recommends disabling Active Script within Internet Explorer, then enabling it again for only a handful of trusted sites.
Required attention span: 5 minutes Ingredients
Before you start, you'll need to gather these elements:
How to disable Active Script within Internet Explorer: Follow these simple steps
More resources:
Windows resource center
By Robert Vamosi
Edited by Allen Fear
(March 27, 2005)
Edited by Allen Fear
(March 27, 2005)
Active Scripts are programs written in JavaScript, or sometimes Microsoft's VBScript and ActiveX, that enable Web sites to add specific functionality. Unfortunately, more than a few well-known vulnerabilities have been discovered within Active Script, and criminal hackers have seized upon this potential. Until a specific patch can be issued, Microsoft often recommends disabling Active Script within Internet Explorer, then enabling it again for only a handful of trusted sites.
Required attention span: 5 minutes Ingredients
Before you start, you'll need to gather these elements:
PC running Windows with Internet Explorer
How to disable Active Script within Internet Explorer: Follow these simple steps
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Scroll down to the Scripting section.
This image displays the default settings for Internet Explorer--and these settings are not safe.
This image displays the default settings for Internet Explorer--and these settings are not safe.
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Change the following settings: "Active Scripting" to Disable, "Allow paste operations via script" to Prompt, and "Scripting of Java applets" to Prompt--then click OK.
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While your Internet Explorer may be safe against attack, it now may break some Web pages where Active Script is necessary.
To avoid this, add the sites that you visit regularly and that are now broken to your Trusted sites group. To add a site, click to highlight Trusted Sites, then click the Sites button.
To avoid this, add the sites that you visit regularly and that are now broken to your Trusted sites group. To add a site, click to highlight Trusted Sites, then click the Sites button.
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To add a given site, just type star-dot-[the domain of your chosen Trusted site]-dot-com, and click Add.
For example, *.cnet.com.
For example, *.cnet.com.
More resources:
Windows resource center 
