Firewall Wizards: Re: ActiveX filtering through firewalls

[Tony Howlett <thowlett () netsecuritysvcs com>]

> I wonder if this is a common problem for the security community ?
> (i.e. people just block ActiveX on the firewall.)
> How would you secure ActiveX in your environment ?
> Any good practice you know of ???
Im doing a study of the security in Windows XP and one of the things it 
claims is Software restriction policys which theoretically allow admins to 
create a policy to push down to the desktops that would disallow activeX, 
java and other malware type applets.  Of course all the  PCs would have to 
be XP and this might break more than it fixes given the number of websites 
that use this code.  However, if you were at a site that was fairly 
restrictive in what it allowed in term of web surfing and had a homogenous 
XP network then it might work.  I havent actually tested this in reality 
yet but im planning on it.   Im putting XP through all its paces and trying 
to verify from an independant standpoint all of the claims they make in 
their marketing literature.

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