Re: [PCWorks] Firefox security flaw courtesy of Microsoft

  • From: John Eichenlaub <bgjohn61@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:16:28 -0400

Firefox blocked this installation on my laptop. (I have Firefox version 
3.5.3....)

John.
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> From: "Ben Moore" <benmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I just read this article http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?pF14&tag=nl.e589
> about a Microsoft plug-in that has been silently installed in most Firefox
> installations with .NET 3.51 sp1.  It opens Firefox to a .net security flaw.
> MS recently fixed the .NET problem but left the plug-in in Firefox.
> Interesting .... 
> 
> Read the article and then you may want to disable the Windows Presentation
> Foundation plug-in in Firefox.  
> 
> Ben Moore

                                          
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