For years, many security consultants and well-meaning guidelines have recommended completely disabling ActiveX in Internet browsers (mainly Internet Explorer) to prevent a particular type of Web ...
Microsoft Office has supported ActiveX for years as an option for extending and automating documents, but it has also been a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft is finally starting to turn ...
I'm working on a project using Visual C++ (6.0) and MFC. When I was going through the AppWizard, I chose not to use ActiveX controls. However, it has since become apparent that I do, in fact, need ...
I'm having the stupidest problem with Excel 2000 and it's making me crazy. <BR><BR>Every fresh install I do of Office 2000 results in Excel being unable to properly use ActiveX controls. If someone ...
In context: Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996 during Windows 95 days. So, in technological terms, it's ancient. Redmond designed it as a developer framework, allowing users to embed interactive ...
Symantec Corp. has confirmed flaws in its most popular consumer security software that could give attackers the means to hijack the Windows PCs that the programs are supposed to protect. The ...
The exploitation of ActiveX controls is not new to the security community. While initially designed to provide website authors with new embeddable features, and granting Internet Explorer (IE) users ...
A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology ...
Instead, most of those attacks targeted bugs in third-party Internet Explorer add-ins created using ActiveX controls. George Stathakopoulos, general manager of Microsoft’s product security and ...
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