PLEASE EDIT. WAS: support-seamonkey Digest, Vol 42, Issue 32
Joe, if you look at your reply you will see that you quoted 11 messages back to the group. Can you please edit? Thanks, James . . Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:49:17 -0500 From: JR WG joseph...@windowgroup.com To: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: Firefox 3.5 RC1 is appearing Message-ID: pc1760200906180749170046b6ebe...@desktop_jr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Appears that Firefox 3.5 RC1 is itself appearing, but with reletively little fanfare and pronouncements from Mozilla HQ. For something that's been waylaid for this long, the RC1 is a relief, indeed, seen mostly in English but we should be seeing other world languages as well. Various locales seen for now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.5rc1 http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/tech/ and there are of course a great many others. Joe ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
How to connect Gnash to Seamonkey
Hi, i try to run Gnash(to display videos)under eComStation (OS/2)instead of Flash under WindowsXP. What i am missing is a plugin-DLL to connect Gnash to Seamonkey. Can anybody help? Have a nice day, Karl ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
How to connect Gnash to Seamonkey
Hi, sorry my message appears twice because of an address error. I try to run Gnash stand-alone under eComStation (ECS/OS/2)instead of using Flash under WondowsXP. It works. What i am unable to do is to connect Gnash to Seamonkey, because i am missing a plugin-dll-file. Can anybody help to overcome this problem? Have a nice day, Karl ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: How to connect Gnash to Seamonkey
Karl schrieb: Hi, sorry my message appears twice because of an address error. I try to run Gnash stand-alone under eComStation (ECS/OS/2)instead of using Flash under WondowsXP. It works. What i am unable to do is to connect Gnash to Seamonkey, because i am missing a plugin-dll-file. Can anybody help to overcome this problem? Have a nice day, Karl there is no browser-plugin for the OS/2 and Syllable port at this time. Looks like you're out of luck (yet?) regards Martin ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability
Hi everyone. Can someone with a bit more understanding of these things please read this article and say weather this applies to SM as well? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716tag=nl.e011 Snip: In a surprise move this year, Microsoft has decided to quietly install what amounts to a massive security vulnerability in Firefox without informing the user. Find out what Microsoft has to say about it, and how you can undo the damage. Microsoft pushed out its .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 update this February End Snip. It looks rather nasty, and I wish I had read it sooner. Cheers. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability
Nairda wrote:
Hi everyone.
Can someone with a bit more understanding of these things please read
this article and say weather this applies to SM as well?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716tag=nl.e011
Snip:
In a surprise move this year, Microsoft has decided to quietly install
what amounts to a massive security vulnerability in Firefox without
informing the user. Find out what Microsoft has to say about it, and how
you can undo the damage. Microsoft pushed out its .NET Framework 3.5
Service Pack 1 update this February
End Snip.
It looks rather nasty, and I wish I had read it sooner.
Cheers.
PS.
If so, what mods need to be made to the following instructions to apply
it to SeeMonkey?
Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension
Intended For
Windows 2000
Windows 7
Windows XP
Windows Vista
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 update, pushed through
the Windows Update service to all recent editions of Windows in February
2009, installs the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant firefox extension
without asking your permission.
This update 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 have originally chosen to abandon IE
in favour of a safer browser like Firefox, you may wish to remove this
extension with all due haste.
Unfortunately, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has taken steps to
make the removal of this extension particularly difficult - open the
Add-ons window in Firefox, and you'll notice the Uninstall button next
to their extension is grayed out! Their reasoning, according to
Microsoft blogger Brad Abrams, is that the extension needed support at
the machine level in order to enable the feature for all users on the
machine, which, of course, is precisely the reason this add-on is bad
news for all Firefox users.
Here's the bafflingly-convoluted procedure required to remove this
garbage from Firefox:
1. Open Registry Editor (type regedit in the Start menu Search box in
Vista/Windows 7, or in XP's Run window).
2. Expand the branches to the following key:
* On 32-bit systems: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Mozilla \ Firefox \
Extensions
* On x64 systems: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Wow6432Node \ Mozilla
\ Firefox \ Extensions
3. Delete the value named {20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b} from
the right pane.
4. Close the Registry Editor when you're done.
5. Open a new Firefox window, and in the address bar, type about:config
and press Enter.
6. Type microsoftdotnet in the Filter field to quickly find the
general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet setting.
7. Right-click general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet and select Reset.
8. Restart Firefox.
9. Open Windows Explorer, and navigate to
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Windows Presentation
Foundation.
10. Delete the DotNetAssistantExtension folder entirely.
11. Open the Add-ons window in Firefox to confirm that the Microsoft
.NET Framework Assistant extension has been removed.
It will be a great day when PC users no longer have to waste this much
time to protect themselves from those who write the software they use.
(And if you're thinking, Why not just use a Mac, may I remind you of
the MobileMe junk recently installed on so many Windows machines without
their owners' permission!)
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Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability
On 6/20/2009 5:00 PM, Nairda wrote: Hi everyone. Can someone with a bit more understanding of these things please read this article and say weather this applies to SM as well? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716tag=nl.e011 Snip: In a surprise move this year, Microsoft has decided to quietly install what amounts to a massive security vulnerability in Firefox without informing the user. Find out what Microsoft has to say about it, and how you can undo the damage. Microsoft pushed out its .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 update this February End Snip. It looks rather nasty, and I wish I had read it sooner. Cheers. The malware is a Firefox extension that (among other things) disables the ability of Firefox to remove it. This apparently affects only Firefox 3.x because of the way extensions are installed. SeaMonkey 1.1.x is related to Firefox 2.x and is not affected because of a different scheme for installing extensions. I don't know if SeaMonkey 2.x will be affected, but it does use the same extension installation scheme as Firefox 3.x. In any case, I've avoided this problem. My Automatic Updates is set for Notify me but don't automatically download or install them. Since I use Internet Explorer only to get Windows updates and to check my own Web pages, I have rejected all .NET Framework (and ActiveX) updates. Suddenly, I'm very glad I did not update my Windows XP SP2 to Windows XP SP3. The latter would have included this malware. See bug #499521 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499521. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Go to Mozdev at http://www.mozdev.org/ for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Is this spam, or what??
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I see no indication that anything has been stripped out en route (by antivirus software, for example). My local AV log shows nothing, too. So I don't get the point of it... Two things are possible. First, it didn't bounce: your email address has been verified as existing, more junk may be on its way. Second, there's a URL in the message id. If something links to that, it may open a malicious web site (I'm not going there to find out). There may be other possibilities I've missed. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
