MS Issued a Fix For Its Unwanted FireFox Extension

As we discussed last February, and again a few days ago after the Washington Post noticed, Microsoft installed without permission a hard-to-remove Firefox extension along with a service pack for .NET Framework 3.5. Reader Pigskin-Referee lets us know that, as it turns out, Microsoft issued a fix a month ago; details here.

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Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[Blakey Rat]

There's three sets of users:
1) Those who read the summaries only
2) Those who read the summaries and comments
3) Those who read the articles, summaries, and comments (extremely rare!)

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[xmousex]

oops i forgot!
hi mom im on slashdot wheeee

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[ivucica]

"+1 Gross but Insightful" is more like it