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 ...

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 ...

Follow the steps below to change the color of the ActiveX Control buttons in Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint. We are using Word as an example, but the procedure is identical.: Launch Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flaws in several of Symantec's Norton security products could give attackers the means to hijack the PCs the programs are supposed to protect Symantec has confirmed flaws in its most popular consumer ...

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 ...

I am developing a couple small vb.net apps for me to use in my workplace using the MS Office Document Imaging control. I am curious as to what kind of licensing is needed? The Microsoft Office ...

May 2, 2013. ADLINK Technology has announced availability of AD-Logger (ADLINK’s ready-to-run data capture application) and DAQBench (which provides ActiveX controls used for creating professional ...