Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/12/66 11:40

Jose wrote:

> Given a solution, how is the user protected against a similar, hostile
> web page that overwrites his own excel spreadsheets?

By the sandbox model. What an ActiveX is allowed to get up to depends
on from where you obtained the page. With crazyily insecure configs
this could be a problem, but the defaults are generally fairly safe.

This type of question though is really an Excel / COM / VBA question.
You'll find more relevant eyeballs over in one of the microsoft.*
groups.

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