After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps. ActiveX is a legacy software framework introduced in 1996 ...

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 ...

KB 3008923 crashes IE, KB 3002339 still hanging on install, KB 2986475 still pulled -- but there's a small silver lining Overnight, Microsoft pulled two high-profile screwed-up patches: KB 3011970 and ...

Milford, MI January 8, 2004—Sapia Inc. introduces SMTX: an ActiveX control that brings Modbus/TCP Master functionality to Excel, VB 6.0, VC++ and other applications. Within minutes, SMTX allows any ...

Earlier this week we learned of a Flash vulnerability being exploited in the wild by loading it through ActiveX in Microsoft Excel. The real news--the Flash vulnerability--was almost overshadowed by ...

After a brief lull -- and two fakes-- the "month of bugs" security projects are back, taking aim this time at flaws in ActiveX controls used by software developers. The MoAxB (Month of ActiveX Bugs) ...

I am writing an app that exports data to excel. It reads existing text files and parses them into columns , which is then made into a CSV file and using an activeX interface, loaded into Excel and ...

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