Microsoft said in a blog post, “The previous default setting, ‘Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions,’ allowed you to enable potentially dangerous ActiveX controls ...

This exploit takes advantage of ActiveX Controls, Microsoft’s technology for executing a program on the Web, and doesn’t appear to work with Internet Explorer 4.0.

The fact is, writing secure ActiveX controls is an art, not a science. To succeed, a software developer has to look beyond the intended purposes of the interfaces, to other purposes for which they ...

With Office 2024, ActiveX controls in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio will be turned off by default, and users will not receive any warnings.

The bug is in the ActiveX control that displays Excel spreadsheets within IE, Microsoft said. The timing of the disclosure was particularly awkward for Microsoft.

I download OPERA 6.0. Fastest, cool like it. But it seems to have a problem running ACTIVEX controls like one used from windows update or some ACTIVEX use from some sites.

The ActiveX controls, which are designated to permit IE to run the interactive content from a website, can be located by their CLSID in a different registry location.

An ActiveX control is a small add-on program that works in a Web browser to facilitate the downloading of programs or security updates. However, the controls have been prone to vulnerabilities.

Yes, hundreds of ActiveX controls have been found, over the last decade, to contain buffer overflows or to allow malicious behavior. But with a few exceptions, the problem isn’t with the ActiveX ...

Don't know about 2008 but for 2005 we deploy the ActiveX control through Group Policy which installs the control in c windows\Downloaded Program Files. Once we do this the user does not have any ...

Microsoft describes how to disable the control in an advisory. The SANS Institute classified the flaw as a zero-day vulnerability, meaning the problem is public but not patched.