I was thinking...great lengths seems to be hitting the 'uninstall' button in the extensions of firefox for that extension. Whew...I'm tuckered out after that ordeal. I had to *restart* firefox too.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
