Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Mar 2006 18:07 UTC
Microsoft has acknowledged that a planned update to the way Internet Explorer renders multimedia on Web pages could cause some serious problems, and promised to give developers an extra two months to modify their pages to ensure a smooth transition. The company was forced to make the changes in response to a patent dispute with Eolas Technologies. The fix would affect the way ActiveX controls are displayed on Web pages, according to experts. If no changes were made, a user would have to 'activate' an ActiveX or Java control before it would be usable. More on IE here.
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RE[2]: ActiveX is unsafe at any speed
by KenJackson on Wed 29th Mar 2006 21:49
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Member since:2005-07-18
It's not like every ActiveX control ever made is some malicious application.
True, but as you further point out, it's been abused.
Even Microsoft references "malicious code" in an increasingly common attack where a page filled with several ActiveX controls tries to frustrate you into always trusting the publisher—after which malicious code is delivered in the last control.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itprovie...
This does not build confidence.
Member since:
2005-09-03
It's not like every ActiveX control ever made is some malicious application. I've used a lot that come in handy. Unfortunately it's been abused to the point where everyone thinks you can't make anything helpful with it.