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

Perhaps by you have activex+ mozilla

Tim Roberts escribió:
> 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.