Microsoft Corporation has reported that its own ActiveX browser plug-in technology has brought Windows Vista (the operating system which is lesser prone to infection) under threat. During the past six months, most of the browser attacks against Vista leveraged bugs in ActiveX controls of third-party companies. ActiveX is Microsoft’s technology to create add-ins for Internet Explorer. George Stathakopoulos, the general manager of Microsoft’s product security and security engineering group, has defended ActiveX but accepted that it was not possible to monitor its technology.
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