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Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension
An anonymous reader writes "While doing a weekly scrub of my Windows systems, which includes checking for driver updates and running virus scans, I found Firefox notifying me of a new add-on. It's labelled 'Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant,' and it 'Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to the web server.' The add-on could not be uninstalled in the usual way. A little Net searching turned up a number of sites offering advice on getting rid of the unrequested add-on." The unasked-for extension has been hitchhiking along with updates to Visual Studio, and perhaps other products that depend on .NET, since August. It appears to have gone wider recently, coming in with updates to XP SP3.
Well it changes the user agent.. I assume to say firefox is IE, thus making firefox's market share look smaller, making firefox appear less relevant to pointy haired bosses everywhere.
Oh STFU Balmer -- you should have just offered it through the appropriate Mozilla extension site like every-freaking-body else who has a useful extension to contribute, instead of shoving it down everybody's throat. Stupid, stupid monkeyboi!
Caveat Utilitor
So...
Where can I buy these attachments?
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Yes, that's right. Dammit, I HATE them Micro$oft soooo much, how dare they. Why if I hated them any more I would've... wait, I've got Windows installed. You're claiming that Windows users hate Microsoft. If that isn't proof that you're a retard, what is it? Could it be... TROLLING?
Santa's suicide mission go!
oh man, why do you post anonymously? I'd befriend you for your analogy capabilities and finesse. Like an ugly, fat, mentally challenged, not so full of rotting teeth woman rapping a rootkit author in a dark alley during a rainy night.
Who asked you? :-)