Microsoft Tuesday 13th update

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me 

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Quote from: Axisofevil

Is the M$ download using http? If so, why?

they use active X V10, but not firefox et al, only iE

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What's Active X - in terms of internet protocols?
AFAIK These are the things that malware invites you to install?

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you asked read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX

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That's a very good article.
I remember the picture of Visual Basic 6 - our employer allowed us to be taught this (in our own time).
He thought it would make a nice diversion from going through 2000+ Insurance programs (mostly in RPG) searching for the Y2K bugs.
We spent a whole year on this.
Found exactly one bug.