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Macromedia Technote: How Windows Service Pack 2 can affect Flash content

This is a must-read for any Flash Developer - sooner or later one of your clients will complain about Flash related security popups or blocked content after installing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP. Not only that, SP2 might block Flash content altogether... To be honest I p

This is a must-read for any Flash Developer - sooner or later one of your clients will complain about Flash related security popups or blocked content after installing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP. Not only that, SP2 might block Flash content altogether...

To be honest I personally think that Microsoft has gone one step too far here. Is Flash content suddenly a security thread? Or is it 'only' Active X that they are worried about?

Now that would be funny as they have themselves invented Active X - and now feel the need to block their own technology.

View the Macromedia technote and download the Hotfix (it fixes Microsoft's fix ;-))

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