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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the guess-its-back dept.

hemantm writes "A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser."

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  1. Surprise! by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Funny

    What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?

    1. Re:Surprise! by The+Grim+Reefer2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?

      Well they did release Vista.

    2. Re:Surprise! by Smidge207 · · Score: 5, Funny

      What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?

      Well they did release Vista.

      Well, they did release Bob.

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    3. Re:Surprise! by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...And Clippy, and Windows 98 ME...

      And Commodore BASIC.

  2. Uhuh by jav1231 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The new extension allows Firefox to experience the same rich vulnerabilities that IE users have come to expect!

  3. How inconsiderate! by goldaryn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, this is so unfair to us Ubuntu users

    Someone please send me the .xpi

  4. Attention! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would everyone who voted this old news to the front page kindly line up...thank you.

    *SLAP*

    *SLAP*

    *SLAP*

    *SLAP*

    (etc...)

    Now, don't do it again!

  5. Re:Some Left Over Stupidity from the Last Millenni by Brett+Buck · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have a problem with the .NET framework ... as long as we're not heading back to blurring the line between what the browser should have access to (certain user space files) and what the browser inadvertently has access to (.NET libraries right in the kernel).

            I sure hope they come up with a way to run ActiveX in Firefox, I want seamless integration of my botnet...

            Brett

  6. Re:fairly sure that by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    New Slashdot rule, forget TFA, don't even read the discussion until the 2nd or 3rd time around

  7. Re:Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sadly enough, Slashdot's search engine didn't find it but Google's did.

    Hey, be fair. Slashdot has only had a search feature for about 10 years - it takes time to make these things useful.

    And their development team (Sid) has been feverishly at work all those years in order to bring us world-beating innovations the giant green "Reply to This" and "Parent" buttons (we has such a hard time finding those links before the advent of those buttons) and features to break certain browsers. Add to that the Herculean efforts to change the wait between AC posts (the "Slow Down, Cowboy" feature) from 2 minutes to an amount of time generated by a random number generator and added to 2 hours while telling us things like "it has only been 96 days and 14 minutes since you your last post - you must wait at least 2 minutes before posting" and you can see that Sid (who does this in his spare time between grade-school classes) has had a pretty full plate.

    Oh, and Sid has discovered girls, so his mind is elsewhere these days (he has to adapt - he never had exposure to girls while working for Slashdot).

    So, a little less of the bitching, if you please.

  8. Re:fairly sure that by AnalPerfume · · Score: 5, Funny

    The concept of "download and install an uninstaller to uninstall a program you never asked for but Windows allowed to be installed" seems very common on Windows. Just goes to show Windows is built for developers to exploit, rather than users to use. And people still call it a "personal" computer. I guess one more oximoron can't hurt.

  9. Re:fairly sure that by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 4, Funny

    New Slashdot rule, forget TFA, don't even read the discussion until the 2nd or 3rd time around

    What do you mean, "new"?

  10. Re:fairly sure that by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously he didn't read the memo the first two times around.

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  11. Updated by MsGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Windows 7 isn't done until Firefox won't run."

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