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Thread ID: 67209	2006-03-21 01:37:00	Security Zones	SurferJoe46 (51)	Press F1

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439631	2006-03-22 17:01:00	joe . . are you sure its not listed in there somewhere? did you check wildcards? Yeah I checked for wildcards, and I didn't find it there . . . but the thing that gets me is that the message tells me it's in ANOTHER area . . . . and that's what I am trying to find . I look at it this way: If it's in another zone, and it's some sort of approved one, then I cannot blackball it while it exist in a place that marks it as OK . . . right? I just want to FIND where it is residing . . . . and that's my quest . . . . Tried SEARCH . . . nope! Used Google Desktop Search . . . nope! The Local Machine (5th Area; MY COMPUTER) zone includes all of the content on the local computer, except for data that is stored in the Temporary Internet Files web cache, or classes that have been specifically signed with local machine privileges . This zone is very much like the Trusted Sites zone . Security is extremely minimal, or not present at all . Unless otherwise configured by an administrator, network connections can also fall into this zone . In theory, even when properly configured, malicious content could make its way into the Local Machine zone . For example, an employee may be browsing a restricted site . On one of the pages, there could be a malicious script that looks for and transmits password files to a malicious web site . As a restricted site, the script is still part of the downloaded web page, but it won’t run due to the security restrictions that are in place . But say that the employee decides to save the page to their hard drive for later inspection . They do this by clicking File and Save As, which saves the page – including the malicious script – to their hard drive . Later they open the page on their hard drive . Because they are accessing a file on their local system instead of via a World Wide Web URL, the Local Machine zone will be applied . Because security for this zone is extremely low or nonexistent, the malicious script could execute and cause damage or silently transmit data . I know this seems trivial . . . . but if one cannot control what is and isn't acceptable, that is a challenge . . . . . . . check out this site ( . nwnetworks . com/iezones . htm" target="_blank">www . nwnetworks . com) .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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