Well if that's not attacking intelligence...


Anyways, Drakier explained it well. A plugin as the same privileges as any other program on your computer, and can delete, snoop, and send whatever it wants back to the author. Be very sure you trust the source before installing it. I'm pretty sure that a malicious plugin can do its damage just by you attempting to add it to Decal, but I may be wrong about that. In any case, it certainly can do whatever it wants once you install it and log in AC.

 

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You can add code to a DLL that will execute upon COM registration, yes. Unfortunately, MS decided that the best way to implement COM registration was to instantiate the DLL and have the component handle it's own registration. This was before MS found its new focus on security, so it's no big surprise -- this is one of the reasons IE components (spyware) can take over your computer so easily.

 

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diergo, if you are gone to quote, get the entire QUOTE


i said, WHAT THEY ARE SAYING is.....


not that I SAID it as youre method of quoting implies.

 

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