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.

Lets review: What exactly is ActiveX and what does it do thats supposedly so dangerous? ActiveX controls are packages of code that can run in the context of the browser.

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 ...

Take that same ActiveX control and expose it to the (hostile) global Internet, and it might become "unsafe", because people on the Internet can, and do, exploit buggy 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 precedent is set, as Microsoft killed a Yahoo ActiveX control with its last round of updates.

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 buggy software is referred to by Microsoft as the Microsoft Video ActiveX Control, the MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX Control Object and file msvidctl.dll.