Reply to post: Re: ActiveX developed in naive times?

New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait

JLV

Re: ActiveX developed in naive times?

>They weren't more naive times.

totally true. +10

i also remember how long it took MS to disable by-default autorun.

and what was it, Melissa or I love you, that finally got them to turn active email VBA off, after telling the security community precisely that they could f*** off because it was a convenient feature demanded by "their users marketing dept"?

Pre-capable JS/Java/Flash nasties, ActiveX was _the_ pest wrt security, perceived as almost as bad as downloading random Exes and running them. Luckily the web wasn't near as populated w nasties as now - but not through any good effort on MS' end.

@BongoJoe - revisionism in either bad faith or cluelessness, not sure which. Not many people w half of half a clue thought like you in those days.

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