Micro$oft's sneaky firefox add-on...
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| henke54 Jun 01, 2009 9:42 AM EDT |
Quoting:With Firefox, I just went to download a certain new version 2.0 web browser and and was surprised that after hitting the license accept button Firefox started up an installer, downloaded the application and installed it without any prompts or questions. This is not the security experience with Firefox I've been accustomed to.http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs... |
| gus3 Jun 01, 2009 12:39 PM EDT |
The story got picked up (again) by Slashdot, linking to a story that provides a link to Brad Abrams' blog entry about it... and lookie there, comments got disabled faster than you can say "Microsoft programs are insecure"! http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/02/27/uninstalling-... |
| gus3 Jun 01, 2009 4:42 PM EDT |
A thought just flashed through my head. Did Microsoft use any Mozilla-licensed or (L)GPL-licensed code, in either the installer or the .NET Framework Assistant? If so, did they do so in contravention of the stated terms? |
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