Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension 500
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."
Surprise! (Score:5, Funny)
What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?
Uhuh (Score:5, Funny)
Really? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Surprise! (Score:5, Funny)
What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?
Well they did release Vista.
Re:Surprise! (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.
How inconsiderate! (Score:5, Funny)
Someone please send me the
Attention! (Score:5, Funny)
Would everyone who voted this old news to the front page kindly line up...thank you.
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Now, don't do it again!
Re:Some Left Over Stupidity from the Last Millenni (Score:5, Funny)
I sure hope they come up with a way to run ActiveX in Firefox, I want seamless integration of my botnet...
Brett
Re:fairly sure that (Score:5, Funny)
New Slashdot rule, forget TFA, don't even read the discussion until the 2nd or 3rd time around
Surprise sex is a nice way of saying... (Score:1, Funny)
rape.
--Jimmy Carr (iirc)
Re:Nice Security Update (Score:3, Funny)
I don't do windows updates. the last 'tinyXP' install was it and whatever came with it, came with it. period.
on WGA at all and - again - whatever level its at, its at.
BUT - no wga is a godsend and having a custom windows that is almost entirely crap-free (as much as we can make it) means we don't have to trust papa MS to give up new updates. the updates started being untrustworthy and doubtful a few years ago (around WGA time, really).
since the wga days, I stopped doing online updates and did only a 'walkaround cdrom' update. even that dried up so I had to stop that procedure.
if windows gets borked, I reinstall from that point again (or some backup). I do most of my 'dangerous' stuff on a vnc session with the real net i/o going on on linux and bsd (and opensolaris). the win box is just a vnc-viewier and not much else in a net work context (no local browsing, almost ever!).
this way, I really dont' CARE about this or that security update on windows. I avoid dangerous activity on windows and my win install never changes 'from under me' as it would during various windows updates from MS!
I prefer a slightly older system (of patches) on xp than trusting each new update.
I will trust 'apt-get update' on those boxes and I'll trust the solaris updates, but I will NOT TRUST MS binary updates! not anymore. I'd rather re-install if things go bad than trust their ever-infringing updates.
Re:Dupe (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.
Re:fairly sure that (Score:5, Funny)
Re:fairly sure that (Score:5, Funny)
New Slashdot rule, forget TFA, don't even read the discussion until the 2nd or 3rd time around
What do you mean, "new"?
Re:Surprise! (Score:3, Funny)
...And Clippy, and Windows 98 ME...
And Commodore BASIC.
IE compatibility mode? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe now Firefox will now run in "IE" compatibility mode so I can "correct" all my CSS 2.0 compliant code to render correctly on Redmond's browser.
Re:fairly sure that (Score:5, Funny)
Re:fairly sure that (Score:1, Funny)
Absolutely! Firefox, despite it's reputation, is *HIGHLY* unsecure!
I've easily demonstrated how It won't protect itself vs fdisk, format, or applying 220 volts directly to the harddrive!
Secure browser my ass...
Updated (Score:5, Funny)
"Windows 7 isn't done until Firefox won't run."