Newbie Question: Message when downloading control from web

I have an activex control embedde in a web page. When I pull up the web page i get a message saying:
This page contains controls which are not marked as safe. Do you want to continue load this page?

When I click yes the control doesn't load properly.

Is there a way to prevent this message from showing up other than changing my security settings for my browser?

Is this where Verisign comes in?

Is there anyone else to use besides Verisign?

Thanks
ML

We use Thawte for our certificates, they are actually a subsiduary of Verisign but charge half the price for the developer certificates ($200).

They are based in South Africa but have offices worldwide. They can be found at www.thawte.com.

A certificate will not prevent the message you are getting though. You need to mark your control as 'safe for initialisation' and 'safe for scripting' to solve this problem. This can be achieved using the Package and Deployment tool or you can implement the IObjectSafety interface in the control - check out IObjSafe sample project installed with VB for details on how to do this.

In order to have your control work with the default installation security settings in IE you will need both a certificate and to mark your control 'safe for initialisation' and 'safe for scripting'.

Hope this helps.