Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon roll out an Internet Explorer update that will automatically block old, insecure ActiveX controls. Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...

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 ...

Internet Explorer is generally safe for your web browsing needs these days, but that's not necessarily true of the plugins it runs; one old piece of code could leave your PC open to attack. To that ...

Regarding yesterday's report that the new version of Internet Explorer for Windows will not work with Netscape plug-ins, Gary Campbell found documentation of this in a Microsoft KnowledgeBase article.

According to sources close to the project, ActiveX filtering will be a part of the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. According to WinRumors: “The filter will allow users to control what ActiveX ...

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.

The maturing of Web standards has fueled a wave of innovation in browser technology. It's injecting life into a stagnated market, to the benefit of Web users everywhere and on every platform. Powerful ...

Most browser implementors are quick to adopt emerging Internet technologies, but Microsoft can't or won't make Internet Explorer a modern web browser. Despite some positive steps in the right ...

This month's Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...

In your pages, you can test for the presence of the Windows Media ActiveX control with the following JavaScript: 01 var player; 02 var plugin; 03 var hasActiveX=false ...