Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- And now, Month of ActiveX Bugs
- And now, Month of ActiveX BugsSurely this is akin to shooting fish in a barrel?!? NT...**NOTE. As in the MoAB, here are the rules:Absolutely NO browser add-ins count as a "flaw" or vulnerability. Only activeX controls that come default and TURNED on in the current OS, Vista, count. Also, no...
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web browsers, Authenticode dialog, ActiveX Control, ActiveX, exploit, UAC
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- Yes to "Download signed ActiveX controls" (Installing Web plug-ins as a Vista non-administrative user)
- Yes to "Download signed ActiveX controls" (Installing Web plug-ins as a Vista non-administrative user)Screenshot 9 description errorScreenshot 9 (Security Settings - Internet Zone) has an error in its description regarding "Download signed ActiveX controls." Your description says "It was disabled by default." This is false. The IE...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, Authenticode, Authenticode dialog, UAC, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
Additional Resources
- Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!
- Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!Windows 7 must be good...if this is the best they can come up with! Slashdot appears to be down at the moment so can't read the whole story but I agree this is Gutmann bad. A DLL is hacked and a program stops working - shock,...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Screen gallery: With Vista and IE7's one-two security punch, will the Web be harder to use?
- Screen gallery: With Vista and IE7's one-two security punch, will the Web be harder to use?Reminds me......of...wait. Yes, I've got it. Confusion.If someone with your obvious technical facile is having difficulty, what is the 'average joe' or 'average josette' to do???Well. There it is.The average user doesn't default...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Web browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, Schare, UAC, whitelist, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, security
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Screen gallery: With Vista and IE7's one-two security punch, will the Web be harder to use?
- Screen Gallery: See the screen gallery that shows in detail how the security in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 looks to prevent the installation of rogue ActiveX components. For as long as I can remember, the architecture behind Microsofts ActiveX software component technology (and its predecessors such as...
- Tags: General, Security, Software Infrastructure, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-041 823182 (Windows)
- There is a vulnerability in Authenticode that, under certain low memory conditions, could allow an ActiveX control to download and install without presenting the user with an approval dialog. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could host a malicious Web Site designed to exploit this vulnerability. If an attacker...
- Tags: Attacker, Vulnerability, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2003-10-16
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts