A general rule of thumb for tuning database applications is "80 percent application, 20 percent database." This means that, on average, developers can tune 20 percent of performance problems by ...

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has released a new ActiveX fuzzer to help developers pinpoint browser-based security vulnerabilities. The tool, called Dranzer, lets ...

Microsoft plans to add ActiveX blocking capabilities into certain versions of its Internet Explorer browsers on Aug. 12. However, the actual blocking effect will only start to take effect for Oracle ...

I'm following the advice of US CERT and other security wonks and disabling my ActiveX controls in IE. The big question: Will I miss it? The short answer is probably not since I mostly use Firefox.

Everybody who is anybody who is not Microsoft has joined forces to create a new way of running software applications inside a Web browser. At stake is the future of Web "plug-ins," third-party ...

Microsoft announced that it will block older ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer, starting with Java. Next week’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins will not only bring nine new security ...

Microsoft Edge, the browser formally known as Project Spartan to be bundled with Windows 10, will ditch ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects (BHO) in favour of HTML5 and JavaScript. However, the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you’re using Microsoft Outlook Express in Internet Explorer 5.0 for e-mail and you don’t disable the ActiveX Controls feature, someone could send you a message that could wipe ...

A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of ...

Word processing component maker Text Control GmbH today announced the release of TX Text Control ActiveX 16.0. The updated ActiveX controls are part of a family of products focused on enabling the ...