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- 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...
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- Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase
- Symantec has reported that the Neosploit toolkit has been updated to include attack vectors for the recent Microsoft Access ActiveX vulnerability. Neosploit is a toolkit for sale on the market (price estimates fall between $1500-$3000) that seeks to automate and extend the capability of browser exploits. Symantec...
- Tags: Web, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Access, Vulnerability, Trusted Site, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Site, Zone, Intranet, Attack, Neosploit, Internet, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web Browsers, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Microsoft warns of "active, targeted" ActiveX control attacks
- Microsoft warns of "active, targeted" ActiveX control attacksAn activeX attack. WHAT a suprise...NTActiveX exists?Truly amazing. I'd have assumed that, after nearly 15 years of holding the title of "worst exploit ridden API ever designed," people might actually learn not to use it.This is a threat to big business...
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., ActiveX, attack, ActiveX Control
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Microsoft warns of "active, targeted" ActiveX control attacks
- Microsoft has issued a pre-patch security advisory to warn about "active, targeted attacks" against an ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access. The skinny: An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. When a user views the Web page,...
- Tags: Vulnerability, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Corp., Attack, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Office, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
- Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Site, Web Browser, IE8, Microsoft Windows, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Phishing, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- ActiveX control bug bites Creative Labs AutoUpdate engine
- A high-severity security flaw in the Creative Software automatic update engine could put Windows computers at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from the US-CERT Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The vulnerability affects the software used to provide updates to Creative Labs' audio/video entertainment product line,...
- Tags: Webcam, Zen, Automatic Update, Blaster Worm, ActiveX Control, Creative Labs Inc., ActiveX Control Bug, Create Software AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX Control, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Patches, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Microsoft shares more IE8 security details
- When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer IE 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft...
- Tags: Security, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, Web Browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- RealPlayer: More ActiveX security headaches
- RealPlayer: More ActiveX security headachesMS disabled Netscape plugins in IE5.5 SP2 w/o warningThey claimed after the fact it was for security reasons. ActiveX is FAR more of a problem since it was designed to do any and everything the operating system could do. IE is it's self an...
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web browsers, Middleware, Digital music, Digital media, security, ActiveX, plug-in, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Plugins, ActiveX Control, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Netscape Communications Corp., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Free Online AV Audio Video Chat ActiveX Control (exe)
- The online AV Chat is a free online audio, video chat service that allows people talk face-to-face with friends and loved ones using webcam or microphone within their web browsers. By using it, webmasters, bloggers or anyone creating a web site are able to embed the audio, video chat features...
- Tags: Audio, P2P, ActiveX Control, Video, AV Chat, Corporate Communications, Peer To Peer (P2P), Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-02-11
- IDAutomation 2D Barcode ActiveX Control (zip)
- IDAutomation ActiveX Controls produce precise, high-quality Windows Metafile Barcode graphics used in Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Internet Explorer, and C++. Compiled in C++ ATL, it performs quickly, has a small file size, and no runtime dependencies. Includes a signed DLL and CAB file. This version is the first...
- Tags: ActiveX Control, C++, C/C++, Programming Languages, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-02-05
- X360 Outlook Express ActiveX Control (exe)
- X360 Outlook Express ActiveX Control will help application developers create applications with Outlook Express and Window Address Book operation capabilities. You can browse and operate Folders within Outlook Express such as create a new folder, remove and rename an existed folder. Get useful information of folders such as get the...
- Tags: Message, Folder, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-01
- GOGO Picture Viewer Pro ActiveX Control (exe)
- GOGO Picture Viewer Pro ActiveX OCX helps you to view and save images including *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg, *.pdf, *.png, *.tif, multi paged TIFF/PDF. You can rotate by angle, flip, zoom, resize, draw text and image, print, and crop image. It provides over 40 types of image effects and adjustments. Load...
- Tags: ActiveX Control, TIFF, ImageSkill, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-01-09
- Movie Player Pro ActiveX Control (exe)
- window media video, ASF, RM need RM decoder, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 need decoder, ASF, WAV, MP3, MID File formats. Built in MOV, MP4, 3GP decoder. Overlay text and bitmap on video in same time. Multi-Line Scrolling text on video. Video Mixing, you can mixing multiple video and playback in same time....
- Tags: Audio, Movie, ActiveX Control, Video, 3gp, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-01-07
- X360 Multi-page Tiff Viewer ActiveX Control (exe)
- X360 Multi-page Tiff Viewer ActiveX Control helps application developers and programmers create applications with multi-page TIFF images viewing capabilities. Also, it helps you to get the embed TIFF tag from the images. It helps programmer to view multi-page TIFF image within their applications. Also, you can use it to visualize...
- Tags: ActiveX Control, Image, TIFF
- Software downloads 2007-12-27
- Zero-day flaw haunts HP laptop models
- A zero-day hole is several major HP laptop models could provide an easy way for hackers to take complete control of Windows machines, according to a warning from an independent security researcher. The researcher, known as "porkythepig," discovered the vulnerability in the HP Info Center software that's...
- Tags: Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., ActiveX Control, Laptop Computer, Flaw, Laptop Model, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- X360 Exif And Tiff Tag Viewer ActiveX Control (exe)
- X360 Exif & Tiff Tag Viewer ActiveX Control helps application developers to get all embedded image information including EXIF tags, TIFF tags, and GPS tags. It allows you to write useful information back to JPEG, PNG, and TIFF images. Also, you can use it as a simply image viewer ActiveX...
- Tags: ActiveX Control, TIFF, Tag, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, GPS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- GOGO Picture Viewer ActiveX Control (exe)
- GOGO Picture Viewer ActiveX OCX is a powerful ActiveX control, which is intended for work with image data. You can view and save images of different formats, such as *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, and multi paged TIFF images. You can save JPEG image files with user defined quality level....
- Tags: ActiveX Control, Image
- Software downloads 2007-11-19
- GOGO Exif Image Viewer Pro ActiveX Control (exe)
- GOGO Exif Image Viewer Pro ActiveX Control helps application developers to get all embedded image information including EXIF tags, TIFF tags, and GPS tags. GOGO Exif Image Viewer Pro ActiveX OCX allows you to write useful information back to JPEG, PNG, and TIFF image. Also, you can use it as...
- Tags: JPEG, ActiveX Control, TIFF, Tag, PNG
- Software downloads 2007-11-19
- X360 Tiff Image And Fax Viewer ActiveX Control (exe)
- X360 Tiff Image & Fax Viewer ActiveX Control helps you to view and save images of different formats including BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, multi-paged TIFF, and WMF. Major functions include: flip, rotate, resize, zoom image, control scroll action, draw text, convert color to grayscale and black & white,...
- Tags: Fax, ActiveX Control, Image, TIFF
- Software downloads 2007-10-19
- MapPoint 2002/2004 ActiveX Control in Visual Basic (exe)
- This download provides you with Microsoft Visual Basic project files that place the MapPoint ActiveX Control on a Visual Basic form. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Corp., MapPoint, Microsoft Development Tools, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-10-03
- HTML Snapshot (exe)
- HTML Snapshot is an ActiveX control that uses the Internet explorers functionality to take capture a snapshot of a given URL. It hosts the Web browser control on windows to download Web page and then capture the whole HTML page it as image. It can be easily integrated into applications...
- Tags: HTML, ActiveX Control, HTML Snapshot, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-05
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