New undiscovered bug in IE?

I don't know but is it possible that a website can open the MS Agent app? How the heck can a website open an exe file on my PC?

So as soon as I open the site I get to see the Merlin agent in the tray (and in Process Explorer) and if I close the site, it will disappear. With javascript disabled it doesn't work, so it doesn't look good.

I'm fully patched btw and if it is a bug can someone please notify MS? TIA

http://home.wanadoo.nl/electro1/avr/sp12nl.htm

 

OK so maybe I was a bit paranoid, but I still don't like it that webpages can startup the MS agent, who knows what's next. It also doesn't work with ActiveX disabled, so hopefully we can block this control somehow.

More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msagent/guidlin_87lg.asp

 

Hi Rasheed187...

I followed the other link and zapped the wizard!

This is not a big deal for me Rasheed. In Outpost Pro I can easily exclude loading Active content such as this on a site per site basis via a prompt or exclusion list entry.