Microsoft Snuffs Out Third-Party ActiveX Controls

Microsoft Snuffs Out Third-Party ActiveX Controls

Stomps buggy HP, Aurigma controls with 'kill bit' update.

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Aug 13, 2008 1:45 pm

Microsoft Corp. today issued "kill bit" updates for ActiveX controls from HP and a Washington state developer, the third time it's disabled third-party add-ons in the last four months.

One security researcher linked the release to a new program Microsoft announced last week that's designed to help other vendors find and fix bugs in their own software.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/149759/arti...ml?tk=nl_dnxnws

Nice of them to tell us what it does after we install it, eh? <_<