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[News] [Rival] Firefox Flags Microsoft-shoved Malware and Blocks It

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Firefox Flags Microsoft-shoved Malware and Blocks It
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:46:55 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Mozilla Disables Microsoft's Insecure Firefox Add-on

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| Mozilla is disabling a pair of components 
| stealthily installed by Microsoft earlier this 
| year for Windows users of the Firefox Web 
| browser, warning that the software suffers from a 
| serious security vulnerability. 
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/mozilla_disables_microsofts_in.html?hpid=news-col-blog

Sneaky Microsoft plug-in puts Firefox users at risk

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| An add-on that Microsoft silently slipped into 
| Mozilla's Firefox last February leaves the 
| browser open to attack, Microsoft's security 
| engineers acknowledged earlier this week.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139459/Sneaky_Microsoft_plug_in_puts_Firefox_users_at_risk

Blocklist all versions of "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant" extension and associated "Windows Presentation Foundation" plugin (installed automatically via .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 update)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522777

Mozilla says Microsoft browser malware can Firefox off

http://www.daniweb.com/news/story231169.html


Recent:

Mozilla tantalises fans with Firefox 3.6 test build

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| Mozilla has pushed back the release of its Firefox
| 3.6 beta by another week, although an early build
| of it is now available for any brave testers out
| there desperate to tinker with it from today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/15/firefox_3_6_beta_test_build/
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