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Drop a malicious ActiveX control into a document, convince a user to open it, and hey presto! Potential remote code execution! Therefore, Microsoft is making it progressively more difficult for users ...

These same procedures enable you to use DEVICE=ACTIVEX to generate graphs that are ActiveX controls. The DEVICE=JAVA or DEVICE=ACTIVEX settings are used instead of specifying DEVICE=GIF; otherwise, ...

Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996 ...