FlashPlayerControl .NET
Downloads FlashPlayerControl is a .NET component that enhances Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX features. It is thus possible to avoid certain Macromedia Flash Player ActiveX limitations. Creates Flash-enabled applications which are ready to work even if the...
[January 17, 2007, 7:00]
ActiveX 'feature' puts Office at risk
News An ActiveX control is a small application typically used to make Web sites more interactive. However, Microsoft acknowledged, this functionality could be abused by an attacker to automatically load an ActiveX control on a user's system through an...
[June 23, 2006, 8:55]
ActiveX flaw exposes Flash users to hackers
News Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer at eEye, attributed the Macromedia Flash flaw to a buffer overflow vulnerability connected to an ActiveX control called Flash.ocx. An exploit has been discovered in Macromedia's Flash player that could let...
[May 3, 2002, 15:56]
Adobe Flash Player 10 Administration Guide
White Papers In its most popular form, it is embedded in a web browser as a plug-in or an ActiveX control. Flash Player is the software that allows computers to play multimedia content contained in SWF (pronounced "Swiff ") files, which are the main type of...
[May 29, 2009, 1:19]
Live Your YouTube Video in PowerPoint Presentation: Smart Guide
Blog Select "VideoLAN VLC ActiveX Plugin v1/v2" in the set of controls available, then draw and resize the displayed area with mouse in the slide as you like. In the set of controls available on your computer, select "Shockwave Flash Object".
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
Microsoft issues emergency patch for IE
News Microsoft first warned about the ActiveX issue on 6 July, saying a vulnerability in its Video ActiveX Control could allow an attacker to take control of a PC if the user visits a malicious website and attackers were exploiting the hole.
[July 29, 2009, 8:45]
PopUpCop 2.5 review
Reviews PopUpCop lets you choose to allow all pop-ups, require the program to ask about each pop-up or simply disable Web features such as Java and ActiveX scripts, images, animation, background music and Flash movies.
[October 18, 2004, 8:55]
Internet Explorer 6 (with Windows XP SP2) review
Reviews A new Information Bar appears directly below the address bar whenever a site attempts to install an ActiveX Control, open a pop-up window or download a file to your system. The Internet Explorer bundled with Windows XP SP2 now does a better job of...
[November 11, 2004, 7:42]
Adobe fixes flaws in Flash Player, ColdFusion
News Two of the patches are targeted at stopping information disclosure that could take place through the Flash Player ActiveX control and the software's interpretation of jar: protocols in Mozilla browsers.
[November 7, 2008, 11:19]
Google reveals winners of Native Client bug contest
News Current web-application programming environments, such as Flash, JavaScript and ActiveX, offer limited processing power and have suffered their own share of implementation flaws that can be exploited.
[July 9, 2009, 9:22]
