Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

»Q« wrote: In , Nairda wrote: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716&tag=nl.e011 Snip: "We added this support at the machine level in order to enable the feature for all users on the machine. Seems reasonable right? Well, turns

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

In , Nairda wrote: > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716&tag=nl.e011 > > Snip: > "We added this support at the machine level in order to enable the > feature for all users on the machine. Seems reasonable right? Well, > turns ou

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

Benoit Renard wrote: David E. Ross wrote: The malware is a Firefox extension that (among other things) disables the ability of Firefox to remove it. As far as I know, they didn't disable uninstallation. It just isn't possible while using Firefox because it's installed on the application leve

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

David E. Ross wrote: The malware is a Firefox extension that (among other things) disables the ability of Firefox to remove it. As far as I know, they didn't disable uninstallation. It just isn't possible while using Firefox because it's installed on the application level, and not in the user

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

David E. Ross wrote: >By the way, the latest W3Schools report now indicates that >more people are now using Gecko browsers than IE. >Of course, the specialized nature of the W3Schools Web site >skews their survey so that it really doesn't reflect >the general audience of Internet users. Well, the

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

On 6/21/2009 2:41 AM, Daniel wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 6/20/2009 5:00 PM, Nairda wrote: > > > >> 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. >> > > Sorry, David! You only use

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

David E. Ross wrote: On 6/20/2009 5:00 PM, Nairda wrote: 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. Sorry, David! You only use IE to get updates and check your own webpages. As you us

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

David E. Ross wrote: On 6/20/2009 6:02 PM, David E. Ross wrote: 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=1716&t

Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

On 6/20/2009 6:02 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > 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=1716&tag=nl.e011

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=1716&tag=nl.e011 > > Snip: > In a surprise move this year, Micro

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=1716&tag=nl.e011 Snip: In a surprise move this year, Microsoft has decided to quietly install