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TheSentinel

Aug 18 2009, 07:27 PM

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Sky not falling after the latest Firefox 3.5.2 dust-up with .NET plug-in

By Scott M. Fulton, III on August 18, 2009, 10:26 AM

Mozilla Firefox users awoke this morning to the news in their RSS feeds that the organization had dared to send push notes to its users urging them to upgrade to a Web browser version that was, as the report put it, ".NET incompatible." Hopefully, Firefox veterans knew what was really going on.

More to read at:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Sky-not-fa...ugin/1250605605

Chachazz

Aug 18 2009, 08:20 PM

BRAVO!
Microsoft had first "stealthily" injected an add-on at Machine Level, ie: not uninstallable - Malware practice!
We had to start hacking the system and the browser functions to get rid of that cr*p!

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What it does is give .NET apps designed to be run through the browser a kind of hook to the .NET runtime -- a hook that Internet Explorer includes by design -- so that these apps can check their servers and update themselves.

...a big security risk and violating user's privacy rights!

Without notification to user - silently..injecting proprietary code into Open source application...

Nice move Mozilla!

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