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ActiveX controls are small apps that let websites provide content, like videos, games, and let you interact with content like toolbars. Unfortunately, because many ActiveX controls aren’t automatically updated, they can become outdated as new versions are released. It’s very important that you keep your ActiveX controls up-to-date because malicious software (or malware) can target security flaws in outdated controls, damaging your computer by collecting info from it, installing unwanted software, or by letting someone else control it remotely. To help avoid this situation, Internet Explorer includes a new security feature, called *out-of-date ActiveX control blocking*.
Out-of-date ActiveX control blocking lets you:
- Know when IE prevents a webpage from loading common, but outdated ActiveX controls.
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For more info about this new feature, see the [Internet Explorer begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=507691) blog. To see the complete list of out-of-date Active controls blocked by this feature, see [Blocked out-of-date ActiveX controls](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=517023).
## How often are the ActiveX controls updated?
We'll periodically update this page with new ActiveX controls blocked by this
feature. We'll typically provide one month's advance notice before adding new
controls to the list.
You will receive a notification if a webpage tries to load one of the following
of ActiveX control versions:
**Java**
| Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4, everything below (but not including) update 43 |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| J2SE 5.0, everything below (but not including) update 99 |
| Java SE 6, everything below (but not including) update 181 |
| Java SE 7, everything below (but not including) update 171 |
| Java SE 8, everything below (but not including) update 161 |
| Java SE 9, everything below (but not including) update 4 |
**Silverlight**
| Everything below (but not including) Silverlight 5.1.50907.0 |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
## What does the out-of-date ActiveX control blocking notification look like?
When IE blocks an outdated ActiveX control, you’ll see a notification bar similar to this, depending on your version of IE: