Barely a week goes by without one or more ActiveX controls from various vendors being declared unsafe.
So Roger Grimes understands IT pros' collective caution. It's always a good idea to disable unneeded and unauthorized software.
"But running a browser without ActiveX enabled when other more reasonable alternatives exist is throwing the baby out with the bathwater," he writes in Don't throw out ActiveX or Java.
"Some people, rightly or wrongly, simply hate ActiveX. They've been burned before," Grimes continues. "But disabling ActiveX when you can prevent the unsafe controls from loading seems a little heavy-handed. Is JavaScript next?"
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 11, 2008 06:25 AM
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