Microsoft Office has supported ActiveX for years as an option for extending and automating documents, but it has also been a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft is finally starting to turn ...

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 ...

“But running a browser without ActiveX enabled when other more reasonable alternatives exist is throwing the baby out with the bathwater,” he writes in Don’t throw out ActiveX or Java. “Some people, ...