Where's your security now?

Mar 10, 2009 14:51

Yoinked from here.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 update, pushed through the Windows Update service to all recent editions of Windows in February 2009, installs the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant firefox extension without asking your permission ( Read more... )

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taigitsune March 11 2009, 20:17:48 UTC
There's an easy fix for this: use linux. :3

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lefthooktohead March 11 2009, 21:01:35 UTC
Looks like a certain company wants to screw over everyone for sure now.

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youlanda March 12 2009, 05:54:43 UTC
I use Chrome, not for security, but because it's fast.

If anything, using a certain browser for 'security' is a false sense of security, and that sense is now realized. I have to snicker a little.

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