ActiveX Controls are applications that help websites provide users with high data content like videos and certain games. Other than this, they assist users to access content like toolbars and stock ...

Microsoft plans to add ActiveX blocking capabilities into certain versions of its Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12. However, the actual blocking effect will only start to take effect for Oracle ...

ActiveX blocking capabilities will be making their way to Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12, according to Microsoft. That's the date when the new ActiveX blocking capabilities will start to appear ...

Microsoft today announced an important Internet Explorer update that will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. It will be released along with the next Windows update and other security updates coming ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has revealed that all of the currently supported desktop versions of Internet Explorer ...

A new security feature that will let users pick and choose which ActiveX controls can load is said to be included in a future version of IE9. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple.

Last month, Microsoft posted a security advisory that detailed "active, targeted attacks leveraging a potential vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access." The ...

The Windows Media Player 7/9 has a rich set of control functions that can be called from Javascript in the Web page. Calling these from Javascript is the same whether you're in Mozilla or Internet ...