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 ...

Microsoft has issued a notification in the Admin Center to warn users that the upcoming Office 2024 will ship with ActiveX turned off by default.

Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.… The change replaces the previous default setting, "Prompt me ...

Disable ActiveX controls You can also protect your system from some vulnerabilities by configuring IE settings to prompt before running ActiveX controls.

IT professionals can minimize the malicious ActiveX issue by changing Office’s settings so that all ActiveX commands force a prompt — but the setting to do so isn’t obvious.

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.

In this post, we show you how to change color of ActiveX Control buttons in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint programs.

Microsoft Corp. today issued “kill bit” updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it’s disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months. One ...

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 ...

In the Internet Explorer 6 security settings, I've noticed that the options for running ActiveX controls and plug-ins include "Administrator approved", "Disable", "Enable" and "Prompt". Is there ...

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Yes, hundreds of ActiveX controls have been found, over the last decade, to contain buffer overflows or to allow malicious behavior. But with a few exceptions, the problem isn’t with the ActiveX ...