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• Plugin certification
• Plugin downloads
• Plugin installation
• Plugin removal
• Plugin support
• Plugin versatility
• Plugin versions

Plugin certification

All Copysafe plugins have been signed using Microsoft Authenticode. Both the plugins that are installed and their respective installers have been signed. If you are providing the plugin downloads from your own web site, you need to maintain that they are current (have not expired). To check their expiry date, view the plugin's installer locally (on your own computer) using File Explorer and highlight the file to right-click and select "Properties". You should see a tab for "Digital Signature"... check the certificate's expiry date.

Plugin downloads

Plugin downloads are provided to your visitor's for free from our download servers, however we do invite you to provide the downloads from your own web site and will provide whatever support is needed. Providing the downloads from your own web site may has many advantages:

• Maintain that the plugin version matches your web pages
• Faster downloads from servers closer to your audience
• Customise the installers or sign with your own certificate
• Restrict the browser/versions that can view your protected content

 The latest set of plugin installers can be downloaded here (current version) and includes:

• Current installers for Mozilla type web browsers
• Current installers for Internet Explorer
• Current csi.js files and documentation
• Current updates for your Copysafe software
• Current samples for html and ASP examples
• Current documentation for visitor help files

Plugin installation

Automatic installation via the user's web browser is recommended to ensure that the plugins are installed in the correct location for the browser in use. When a visitor loads your protected page, their web browser is checked for the current version of the plugin, and if it is not detected or needs to be upgraded, they are redirected to the apprpriate download page.

Plugin removal

The Internet Explorer plugin can be removed from the Windows "Control Panel" by using "Add/remove programs"... remove "Copysafe". Note: if you remove "Copysafe Pro" you will delete your Copysafe software program!

The Mozilla type plugins cannot be removed automatically (no Mozilla plugins can be). Instead they must be manually deleted from their locations:

Plugin support

Copysafe plugin version 3 is supported on the following platforms:

• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003
• Windows Vista

Copysafe plugin version 3 is supported in the following web browsers:

• Firefox 1.5 and later versions
• Internet Explorer 6 and later versions
• Netscape Navigator 9 and later versions

Plugin versatility

When the Mozilla type plugin is installed, it becomes available to all Mozilla web browsers that are supported by Copysafe. For example if the plugin is installed into Firefox, the same plugin will be used when viewing with Netscape Navigator and vice versa.

Plugin versions

Copysafe version 1 and 2 plugins were single entities. Version 3 plugins are quite different and are comprised of two components. While the plugin may reside in the web browser's plugin folder, Instru.nls must be present in the locations shown below:

Each installer will ensure that the components are installed correctly.

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