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MS and user control

2009-06-01 14:56:19.673925+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Browsing with Firefox just got less secure: Microsoft Service Pack quietly installs Firefox add-on that "...adds to Firefox one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities present in all versions of Internet Explorer: the ability for websites to easily and quietly install software on your PC. Since this design flaw is one of the reasons you may've originally choosen to abandon IE in favor of a safer browser like Firefox, you may wish to remove this extension with all due haste."

[ related topics: Microsoft Software Engineering moron ]

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#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-02 11:29:32.655973+00 by: andylyke

So I navigated to the MS page that offered the patch, downloaded it (using Firefox) and was told that I had no software installed to which this patch pertains. WTF?

#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-03 16:01:43.473582+00 by: other_todd

I disabled it when I first saw it and that seemed to be okay. If you disable it, Firefox won't load the plugin anyway. I gather that updates to .NET framework since then have enabled you to uninstall the plugin.