If you accidentially clicked “OK” to an ActiveX popup, you may have installed an ActiveX control. Frighteningly, ActiveX controls have a huge amount of power to do almost anything they want.
First, never install an ActiveX control without reading the pop-up box and making sure you trust the source! A lot of people install programs that will rip you off. The most harmless ones may just open pop-ups all the time. Others may monitor what sites you visit. Really nasty ones have dialers in them. If your computer is hooked up to a phone, it can make 900 calls with huge phone rates and you get stuck with the bill.
To see what activeX controls are installed and to remove them, in IE
1. go to Tools -> Internet Options…
2. on the General” tab, in the “Temporary Internet Files” area click “Settings…”
3. click “View Objects” now you can see all the IE add-ons that are installed.
4. Right-click on one of them and select “Properties…”
5. on the “General” tab is a field called “Code Base” the code base is the URL that is associated with this add-on. you can probably check out these urls and see what the hell it is. there’s a fews legit IE default plugins installed, but you’ll probalby find the one you don’t like
6. right-click and select “remove” to get rid of the unwanted plugin.
