While IE now has a much smaller market share than this article mentions (since a lot of people have now upgraded to much better browsers) the rest of the information on this page about why you should disable ActiveX in IE and how to disable it is still as valid today as when I first wrote it – especially if you are still using that major security hole sometimes called IE6. Of course a simpler solution is to just install a better browser but if you still need IE6 for some weird reason you should at least kill off the main cause of most of its security holes.

IE Security/Turning off ActiveX

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Tags: activex, internet explorer, security