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Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update
Jan writes "As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet Explorer and an extension for Mozilla Firefox, both without the user's permission."
Microsoft hides extension in awkward zipper malfunction.
(Sorry, it's one of those mornings)
Well Chrome does all kinds of evil, it is just better at hiding it.
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
My friend and I played a drinking game to /. once. One person clicks on a story involving Microsoft or Apple or Linux or polotics and the other person has to take a drink for every bullsh*t post about "M$" or Apple's App Store or Android FTW and everything else completely unrelated to what the actual post is about. Let me just say, don't attempt this in the morning...
:)
ps. Slashdot community, I love you all but some days you make me pull my hair out.
Sonny, I remember the days when we had to manually type in http://www.altavista.com/ or http://www.lycos.com/ into our browsers to get to a search engine. We had to use our keyboards and everything! Then the search engine took a long time and returned bad results... and we liked it!
These newfangled search bars, they're the devil's work I tell ya.
So, to use a car analogy, it's like Microsoft is installing a new rooftop on their own car, and if you don't own a car from the other company they just install a new rooftop that just floats in mid-air next to your Microsoft car?
Neat!
The problem is these add-ons aren't installed with user privileges, but admin privileges. How would you have Mozilla fix this?
Easy! FF needed these same admin privileges to be installed at some point; programs routinely ask for elevation, and FF is just trying to play 'usermode' too much, without a general picture of general systems management. Put the now-standard API call that "elevates" my rights to do sys admin tasks in Windows, and presto.
By magically circumventing the permissions system in Windows?
If a virus can "magically circumvent permissions", to root a Windows machine just because the writers learn the Windows API better, then a legal program ain't trying hard enough. After all, the Windows API does allow for elevation in two ways that I know of. 1) Ask the user for a PW per change 2) Or, register a daemon at install time that runs without limitations, like Firewalls and Antispyware programs do.
But on the plus side, you got a lot more links to random pr0n sites. Apparently.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
By magically circumventing the permissions system in Windows?
But Mom, everybody else is doing it!
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Polut is probably a typist...
It's more like them installing a public bathroom on the roof of your car where the plumbing consists of an open pipe directly over the driver's head.
At least that's how I view toolbars.
From the article:
See? It's surrounded by a SEP field. Nobody will notice it.
Still, it is nice to see Slartibartfast is gainfully employed...
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Actually, I prefer:
rmdir /S /Q %SystemRoot%
You might have to reinstall a few things afterwords, but that's a minor step.
Call Microsoft and threaten to sue for unauthorized modifications of programs on your computer.
Watch how fast you get it fixed.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
So, to use a car analogy, it's like Microsoft is installing a new rooftop on their own car, and if you don't own a car from the other company they just install a new rooftop that just floats in mid-air next to your Microsoft car?
Neat!
No, not on their car, on your car that they manufactured and sold to you.
So it's more like they disconnected the brakes and replaced the pedal with a super-rocket-booster-hyper-activator overnight - without telling you. You will be pleasantly surprised at the next crossroads.
You had me at "Didn't they do this before"
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I thought it was a recursive acronym: bing is not google
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