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 ...

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 ...

a Microsoft Windows operating system that enables various interactive applications like animation, audio, video, and virtual reality to be run inside Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has another gaping security hole, this time because of an ActiveX control with some bad code. Will the patch even stick? By Michelle Delio.

Microsoft Corp. today issued “kill bit” updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it’s disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months. One ...

The precedent is set, as Microsoft killed a Yahoo ActiveX control with its last round of updates.

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.

Greetings all. I have a server running Windows 2000 Advanced Server, IIS6, and MSSQL7. I ran the IIS Lockdown Tool 2.1 and now I can't seem to get an ActiveX control I need to get installed for a ...

The Creative Software AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX control is a component that provides automatic update capabilities to Creative Labs software. This ActiveX control is provided by the file CTSUEng.ocx.