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Lebans mousewheel fix for Access is it safe?

I have been using Lebans mouse wheel fix from below to turn off the mousewheel in an Access 2003 database: http://www.lebans.com/mousewheelonoff.htm.

Recently a collegue pointed out that it is dangerous to use because it might be sending information accross the internet from our database. Is it dangerous?

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Norush

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mranders

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Thanks you two. JeffCoachman, my collegue didn't get the informaiton from anywhere, he simply thinks that there is chance that the mousewheel fix is sending information accross the internet. He thinks that we can't rule out this possibility and that therefore we shouldn't use it.

Norush

Paranoia i would say to be honest.

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DatabaseMX (Joe Anderson - Former Microsoft Access MVP)

"Recently a collegue pointed out that it is dangerous to use because it might be sending information accross the internet from our database. Is it dangerous?"

How exactly would it do that?

"He thinks that we can't rule out this possibility and that therefore we shouldn't use it."
The Lebans MouseHook DLL would be the least of your problems regarding this subject. It's NOT a keyboard logger.

Why not contact Steven directly ... and ask him?

mx

mranders

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Thanks, you helped me argue successfully for using Lebans dll.

Jeffrey Coachman

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