ActiveX in Mozilla?

I was checking my list of installed plugins and found this little guy nestled in with the rest:

Microsoft ActiveX Portability Container (NPPGWrap)

Is this Mozilla's version of ActiveX? Will this allow spyware and nasty **** to be downloaded onto my machine? I'd just as soon not have ActiveX because of the risk, and that is one of the reasons I switched to the dinobrowsers.

 

I understand from this Google search, it is for MSN chat.

 

Oooooo yeah.... I remember installing something for MSN chat. Never mind....

 

shadowhawk,

The Mozilla ActiveX Plugin was written by Adam Lock of Netscape to add ActiveX support to Mozilla. Development is not yet complete. This plugin is included with Netscape 7.1, and is configured to only work with the Windows Media Player control. An XPI package is available for Mozilla 1.4.

IMPORTANT!
This plugin can be configured to download and install ActiveX controls, which can be a security risk. This is configured using activex.js.

More information: Mozilla ActiveX Project

Ramona