Re: How did a worm enter my Mozilla ActiveX Control v1.7.1 directory?

Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
> 
> ActiveX is the way 90-99% of all Worm/trogran/Virus attcks are delivered 
> to PC operating systems. There is "no" , repeat, "no" safe form of ActiveX.
> 
> The person that devised ActiveX should be found and dported to Iraq or 
> some other dangerous country. To foist such a dangerous system on 90% 
> percent of the Computing world.

ActiveX is just a way to wrap a Windows control as a COM object. 
There's nothing inherently wrong with it.  The idiocy comes from 
Internet Explorer (and, by extension, Outlook), which allows binary 
ActiveX controls to be downloaded and executed.

THAT never should have been allowed.
-- 
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.