Microsoft Patch Tuesday will bring nine new security bulletins and an update to Internet Explorer that blocks outdated ActiveX controls. The update, called out-of-date ActiveX control blocking, fires off a flag when the browser stops a website from loading an older control. Microsoft said next Tuesday s update will start with blocking older versions of Java, including Java SE 8 prior to update 11, Java SE 7 prior to. update 65 and Java 6 prior to. update 81. The feature will be supported only on IE 8-11 on Windows 7 SP1, IE versions supported on Windows 8 and higher.
Source: https://threatpost.com/ie-to-block-older-activex-controls-starting-with-java/107672/