On Jun 7, 2009, at 8:45 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
This isn't nearly so bad as M$'s stealth Firefox plugin for
*Microsoft .NET
Framework Assistant
1.0*<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716877.aspx>that
enabled one click in Firefox. It was installed in January as part
of a
M$ tuesday patch. I just heard about it this week. The basic
problem is
that it gave Firefox the same kinds of security hole that Explorer
has.
Users weren't told that it was being installed and thought that
they were
safely running Firefox and were exposed to risks that they were using
Firefox to avoid.
Oh my, I missed that one. And I imagine it came wrapped in some kind
of click-through license that absolves M$ of all responsibility for
anything they do to your computer. It is also interesting that M$ has
disabled the ability to uninstall this invader. One has to go to
great lengths to get it out of FireFox.
Yet one more reason why only fools run Windows.
Are the IT fools who agreed to absolve M$ for its sins also protected
by the click-through license or can we fire the bunch of them?
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