Firefox tampered with ?

Silverspear · Jul 7, 2009

If your concerned with Security and have Mozilla Firefox as your browser, and have recently kept up to date with Windows Updates, you might have downloaded the .net framework which is added to Firefox automatically as an add on.

This allows websites to change your system without admin privilges.

To see if you have this add-on go to tools/add ons. If you dowloaded the update you should see it here, and is easily uninstalled at least disabled. rolleyes

chaslang · Jul 9, 2009

Yes thanks. This is old news however. Discussions on this started at least as far back as Jan 2009. If anyone wishes to read more on it, links like the below can easily be found:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/02/27/uninstalling-the-clickonce-support-for-firefox.aspx

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/microsoft_update_quietly_insta.html

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9449

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Firefox tampered with ?

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