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polly
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active x controls
« on: Friday 06 October 06 10:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Was wondering what is Active X controls. I was going to play a game and it stated that I needed to download active X. Before doing so I need to know if it is safe.
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Re: active x controls
« Reply #1 on: Friday 06 October 06 11:09 BST (UK) »
Active X is a form of programming designed to run within your Internet Browser. It is perfectly safe to allow Active X from a trusted source however its use was hijacked by virus/trojan writers and in one of the security updates to windows the default (standard) setting was switched to "off" rather than constantly accessible.

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A loosely defined set of technologies developed by Microsoft for sharing information among different applications. ActiveX is an outgrowth of two other Microsoft technologies called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and COM (Component Object Model). As a moniker, ActiveX can be very confusing because it applies to a whole set of COM-based technologies. Most people, however, think only of ActiveX controls, which represent a specific way of implementing ActiveX technologies.
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Re: active x controls
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 10 October 06 11:54 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the information
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