What does COM stand for?

Component Object Model (Microsoft)

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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The Container uses the interfaces of Component Object Model.

A Complete Overview on How to Install ActiveX

Microsoft, in its advisory, suggests a number of workarounds, including disabling Active Scripting, allowing only trusted sites to run ActiveX controls and Active Scripting, and preventing component object model (COM) objects from running in Internet Explorer.

Attackers ramp up zero-day ActiveX exploits

In programming, the Component Object Model (COM), so known as ActiveX, is a Microsoft technology for software componentry.

Component Object Model-a history

Fujitsu COBOL's high performance and mission-critical environment are tightly integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and key technologies, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, and BackOffice(tm), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), and ActiveX technologies.

FUJITSU COBOL INTEGRATES LEGACY COBOL WITH VISUAL BASIC

While this technology has largely been replaced with Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), NetDDE is still available on all Windows platforms.

BindView RAZOR Team Issues RapidFire Updates for New Microsoft ...

Wind River Systems Inc claims to have the completed the first real-time implementation of Microsoft Corp's DCOM Distributed Component Object Model interface for embedded systems.

Wind River Re-Implements Msoft's DCOM for Embedded Systems

The patch also repairs two buffer overruns in the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface, which could allow a hacker to take over management rights to a computer by allowing arbitrary code to execute.

St. Bernard Software Technical Advisory: Critical Microsoft Windows ...

The kit adds support for Microsoft Corp's Component Object Model to improve integration with Windows-based clients.

IBM ADDS WINDOWS INTEGRATION TO ITS TP MONITORS