ActiveX Filtering ActiveX filtering could be used on Internet Explorer 11 to prevent websites from installing ActiveX controls to your system.

Microsoft plans to add ActiveX blocking capabilities into certain versions of its Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12.

Microsoft has revealed that all of the currently supported desktop versions of Internet Explorer will begin to block ActiveX controls on websites that it considers to be out of date starting on ...

ActiveX blocking capabilities will be making their way to Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft today announced an important Internet Explorer update that will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. It will be released along with the next Windows update and other security updates ...

For years, many security consultants and well-meaning guidelines have recommended completely disabling ActiveX in Internet browsers (mainly Internet Explorer) to prevent a particular type of Web ...

Take that same ActiveX control and expose it to the (hostile) global Internet, and it might become "unsafe", because people on the Internet can, and do, exploit buggy ActiveX controls.

Report: Internet Explorer 9 to add ActiveX filtering A new security feature that will let users pick and choose which ActiveX controls can load is said to be included in a future version of IE9.

According to sources close to the project, ActiveX filtering will be a part of the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. According to WinRumors: “The filter will allow users to control what ...