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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 ...
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.
Microsoft said in a blog post, “The previous default setting, ‘Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions,’ allowed you to enable potentially dangerous ActiveX controls ...
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 ...
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 ...
With Office 2024, ActiveX controls in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio will be turned off by default, and users will not receive any warnings.
I've been tasked with integrating an OCX into a C#/.NET 2.0 application. Unfortunately, I know little about OCX / ActiveX controls. I'm finding out things about them as I've been working with them ...
For the second time in a week, Microsoft is warning users that hackers are exploiting an unpatched, critical bug in an ActiveX control, putting people running Internet Explorer at risk.
ActiveDAQ Pro is a collection of ActiveX controls that perform I/O operations. The ActiveDAQ Pro package contains: Device, AI, AO, DI/O, Thermo, Counter, and Pulse Control and can be used with any ...
The vulnerability is within the Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which launches a viewer for Microsoft Access reports that doesn’t require running the Access software itself.
DAQBench's various ActiveX controls include user interface, data analysis, data integration, data acquisition, and SCADA controls, enabling easy development of powerful and flexible measurement or ...