http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/

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ActiveX was meant to make it easy to add the latest interactive
multimedia and other features to sites, but instead it's become a tool
for sneaking spyware onto unsuspecting PCs. That's why the U.S.
Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a partnership between the tech
industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of
advising people to consider switching browsers.
<SNIP>

On 30 Jun 2004 14:13:06 -0700, in Newsgroup--> alt.comp.freeware, the personage
of (E-Mail Removed) (* ProteanThread *), courtesy of Message-id
<(E-Mail Removed)>, and wondering whence the
lambs & piglets, bleated & squealed:

>http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/
>
><SNIP>
>ActiveX was meant to make it easy to add the latest interactive
>multimedia and other features to sites, but instead it's become a tool
>for sneaking spyware onto unsuspecting PCs. That's why the U.S.
>Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a partnership between the tech
>industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of
>advising people to consider switching browsers.
><SNIP>

Pass it on <g>.