If anybody uses Firefox, you might want to read this:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... rs_at_risk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
...and remove it.
I got a really, really nasty virus while using Firefox a while back, and I suppose this is why?
Damn Microsoft.
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Re: Damn Microsoft.
Run Linux.
On a more serious note, it is reprehensible for Microsoft to have done this. Set Firefox to ask you before installing any add-ons or updates. Get antivirus protection if you don't already have it, a firewall, and install both SpyBot S&D and Ad Aware. Among free antivirus software, Comodo makes an excellent antivirus and firewall suite, and AVG is also good.
On a more serious note, it is reprehensible for Microsoft to have done this. Set Firefox to ask you before installing any add-ons or updates. Get antivirus protection if you don't already have it, a firewall, and install both SpyBot S&D and Ad Aware. Among free antivirus software, Comodo makes an excellent antivirus and firewall suite, and AVG is also good.
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Re: Damn Microsoft.
To my knowledge, Microsoft didn't install this plugin the normal way, else there's a notice by default. Instead, they basically circumvented Firefox's security, using Windows Update as a gateway through which to do it.Potato wrote:Run Linux.
On a more serious note, it is reprehensible for Microsoft to have done this. Set Firefox to ask you before installing any add-ons or updates. Get antivirus protection if you don't already have it, a firewall, and install both SpyBot S&D and Ad Aware. Among free antivirus software, Comodo makes an excellent antivirus and firewall suite, and AVG is also good.
I think even a lawsuit by Mozilla might be in order, not that Microsoft did it intentionally, but that it was at the very least an act of extreme negligence.