Ars Technica

Malware: 1) Install vulnerable ActiveX control 2) Exploit it

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 ...
ZDNet

BlackBerry bitten by ActiveX control flaw

Research in Motion (RIM) today raised an alarm for a serious security vulnerability in the BlackBerry Application Web Loader, warning that it exposes Windows users to code execution attacks. When a ...
Ars Technica

SSRS 2008 Active X control on TS ... can't install?

We are trying to deliver some SSRS 2008 reports to users on a Citrix XenApp 5.0/Windows 2003 Terminal Services farm. The report generates properly on the screen, but when the user tries to print the ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft: Ask us and we’ll kill your ActiveX control

Microsoft said that it would lock down other vendors' vulnerable ActiveX controls if the vendor requests the help and the software is delivered via Windows Update Microsoft said on Tuesday it would ...
PC Magazine

ActiveX control

A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of ...