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 ...

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 ...

Yay!<P>Bad news is I don't know where to begin. Well, yes I do. I'm trying to make an control for VB that contains a bunch of good ol' functions in VC++(both are at 6.0 BTW) So I start up a new ...

Although computers running Windows Vista are significantly less likely to be infected with attack code than machines running Windows XP, the newer operating system continues to be threatened by ...

And I'm failing miserably. Using VS.NET 2003, I created a quick test Windows Application. Then I add my COM component to the toolbox. This works fine and MyOCX.MyControl appears listed in the toolbox.

For the second time in a week, Microsoft Corp. is warning users that hackers are exploiting an unpatched, critical bug in a company-made ActiveX control, putting people running Internet Explorer at ...

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 ...