[ Thanks to helios for this link.
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“Starting about two months ago, we noticed that when we
accessed the modem page at 192.168.something.or_another, as soon as
we focused the cursor in the first field, we got a popup that asked
us to install software to guide us through the configuration.“Of course, the requirements were a Windows Operating System and
a Microsoft Explorer browser. Big surprise…an ActiveX
control.”
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