[Pedro @ Jan 24th 2007 3:51PM]

"considering that ActiveX controls are an active part of what most teenagers and young adults do on the internet"

Age: 15
Browser: Mozilla 1.7.12 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Gecko/20050915]
ActiveX delivered: 0%.

Obviously I must be missing out on something, because apparently ActiveX is imortant. The only use I can think of for an ActiveX control is malware distribution.

[disciple83 @ Jan 24th 2007 4:13PM]

when the reference to teenagers is brought up as being involved in regular ActiveX use, they are referring to those who do online blogging like in Myspace pages with online media feeds, Facebook uploads, livejournal applications, and all those godforsaken Yahoo! games. I can't honestly remember what I was reading when I was 15, but I can guarantee you it had very little to do with tech blogs, or at that time, monthly magazines about theoretical tech developments. Hell, when I was 15, BASEketball was the closest representation of this period in time. My suggestion would be that if you want to truly avoid unwanted activeX controls getting into your machine, try getting some sunlight at simply not using your computer. A Wii would also be an acceptable substitute, as it at least gets you off your bum.