Name: AxNTRegSecurity Category: Hostile ActiveX Control Advice: Remove Risk: Elevated Risk Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. Description: ActiveX control that remotely monitors the registry. The most simple way for the potential intruders is to write something into startup section of the registry. A number of trojans work this way. This can be done via network, without being physically present at the attacked computer! Having tested our Windows network we discovered that a half of all workstations had their registry open for everyone! The system registry has some vital keys which, if tampered with, make a security breach, destroy data. You can easily monitor the registry on the local or remote computer with our AxTNTRegSecurity control. It is another descendant of the common ancestor of all components which deal with different aspects of Windows NT security. Type: Hostile ActiveX Control - A hostile ActiveX control is an application installed in Internet Explorer, usually by a drive-by-download. Once this application is installed it can run as a normal program on your computer, many times hidden to the user. In addition it has full access to your system and can download and install other applications as well.