Sneaky Microsoft Plug-in Puts Firefox Users at Risk

[VinDSL]

Dear Microsoft,

Please keep your lousy, insecure mitts off my Firefox install(s)... :|

http://voices.washingtonpost.c...tml?hpid=news-col-blog (Washington Post | Mozilla Disables Microsoft's Insecure Firefox Add-on)

http://www.pcworld.com/article...fts_security_hole.html (PCWorld | Firefox Foils Microsoft's Security Hole)

Read & Heed!

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

This again...? Boring.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Rhonda the Sly
This again...? Boring.

Yeah, that's all in the past. You can trust Microsoft now...

Go ahead, buy Win7, there's nothing to worry about! 😀

 

[thedosbox]

Already been posted: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2343087&enterthread=y 😛

To be fair, Microsoft have patched the vulnerability. The problem is that there's no way to tell if the patch has been applied.

 

[Jaskalas]

It angers me that Microsoft would modify Firefox in a way that cannot easily be disabled.

If they had simply followed normal add-on procedures then this wouldn?t have been an issue.

 

[RebateMonger]

Doesn't it seem a bit strange that Microsoft would bother writing a plug-in for a non-MS web browser?

Apparently they did it so that Firefox could run some Microsoft applications, but it hardly seems worth it.

 

[aceO07]

Firefox 3.5.3 just notified me that it disabled the .net assistant plugin. I forgot that the .net plugin would get installed despite reading the posts about it.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
It angers me that Microsoft would modify Firefox in a way that cannot easily be disabled.

If they had simply followed normal add-on procedures then this wouldn?t have been an issue.

It can be disabled. I don't know where this keeps coming from.