Where do I turn off the ActiveX and plugins warning in IE8?

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Published on 2009-11-05T13:35:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 10:03 UTC
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I get several warnings on every page which I visit asking me "Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?".

Where do I turn this off? The machine is a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.

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