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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. Uhm... but this is old news, isn't it? by w4rl5ck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The .net-Update has "installed" this Add-On secretly for a few months now, as far as I know. It just got into the "normal" Windows auto-update stream, thus annoying more and more people? Or am I somehow mistaken?

  2. Re:It's a string in the user-agent by lightning_queen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Then do a little research and don't download the update. Or disable the addon.