Win Media player opens WWW pages on its own.

[Lucas Peet]

Neat, huh??  :-)  This is actually a 'feature' of Windows Media...it
allows scripting (VBScript, I think) to be embedded into the file, so it
executes on playback.  I think this can be done at any time (start, end,
1min 43sec, etc...).

As far as I know, there's no way to disable it.  GO MICROSOFT!!!!
YEAH!!!!

-Lucas

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 19:04, Patrick Thurmond wrote:

You know my question is how in the world do you disable this MS
"feature". Maybe a registry hack could help. I have run into this
problem alot and it pisses me off.

-Patrick

hanasaki <hanasaki at hanaden.com> wrote:

Hi Marvin,

Yup Seen it and dislike it as you do. Actually it is good
functionality
if properly controled. Therein lies the catch :(


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This is a little off-topic, but somewhat related to this issue.
Has
anyone noticed that some files played with Windows media player
can
cause web pages to open? Can other applications be called from
the
media player? Maybe I'm seeing a correlation between isolated
events,
but if what I think is happening is correct, this is an insane
security/privacy issue.

Brian Densmore wrote:

>Also the from domain doesn't appear to exist. Probably a
spoofed
>address.
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