Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon roll out an Internet Explorer update that will automatically block old, insecure ActiveX controls. Dubbed out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, the ...

This month’s Patch Tuesday update for Internet Explorer will include a new feature: it will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. More specifically, it will block out-of-date versions of the Java plugin ...

Next week’s Patch Tuesday updates for Windows will include a monumental security fix. An update to Internet Explorer, for installation on PCs running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8.x, will ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser plugin ...

Firefox, Chome, and Safari let you. But short of a complex, CERT-documented process, there's no reliable way to disable Java in IE No doubt you’ve heard the news: Oracle released Java 7, Update 11 on ...

Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that. “Oracle plans to deprecate the ...

Browser vendors are moving away from plug-ins. Now Oracle is encouraging developers to migrate Java Applets to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology With browser plug-ins going the way of the ...