Last month, Microsoft posted a security advisory that detailed "active, targeted attacks leveraging a potential vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access." The ...

ActiveX has long been regarded as a thorn in the side of Windows users everywhere; a gaping hole through which spyware and viruses can contaminate your PC and compromise your data. Although much of ...

Research in Motion (RIM) today raised an alarm for a serious security vulnerability in the BlackBerry Application Web Loader, warning that it exposes Windows users to code execution attacks. When a ...

Microsoft plans to add ActiveX blocking capabilities into certain versions of its Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12. However, the actual blocking effect will only start to take effect for Oracle ...

Microsoft has revealed that all of the currently supported desktop versions of Internet Explorer will begin to block ActiveX controls on websites that it considers to be out of date starting on ...

A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of ...