Google Analytics -vs- (MSIE) activeX security alert

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I've been waiting for about a month, yet I finally got my Google Analytics invitation! If you navigate with MSIE, depending on your browser settings, you may now see an alert similar to this:

Internet Explorer
 x 

Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?
No
Yes


If you don't, you probably should (You may want to) read about the latest publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer or any of the recent posts at the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog.
Note: It's been fixed here ;-)

BTW, if you ever need to install the Google Analytics snippet to track your phpBB based board, you may wish to not generate the javascript code when you're logged in as administrator. To do so, you may try the following:

#
# ---[ OPEN ]----------
#
includes/page_tail.php
#
# ---[ FIND ]----------
#
$template->pparse('overall_footer');
#
# ---[ BEFORE, ADD ]----------
#
if( $userdata['user_level'] != ADMIN )
{
    
$template->assign_block_vars('switch_google_analytics', array());
}
#
# ---[ OPEN ]----------
# NOTE --- Remember to do this for all your installed styles ;-)
#
templates/subSilver/overall_footer.tpl
#
# ---[ FIND ]----------
#
</body>
#
# ---[ BEFORE, ADD ]----------
#
<!-- BEGIN switch_google_analytics -->

Insert the Google Analytics code here !!!

<!-- 
END switch_google_analytics -->
#
#-----[ SAVE/CLOSE ALL FILES ]--------------------------------
#

Take care! ;-)


Invitation

Heyy tanx for the info but i dun have a invitation yet culd u pass one on to me?


Sorry, no. This is not like gmail, I guess

Please, go ask them ;-)


The ActiveX alert is now gone!

The ActiveX alert was caused by a piece of code that tries to see (when using MSIE) if the browser supports Flash. Fortunately, there's a pretty simple way to avoid this, of course, if you don't care (as I do) about Flash. :P

This is now fixed. :mrgreen: How? hmm... check out the bottom of the source of these pages. ;-)