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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Firefox Plugs Microsoft Security Hole
If you use Firefox (and you should, imho) you have probably already seen a pop-up alert informing you that it is blocking Microsoft`s .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation add-ons that were stealthily installed by Microsoft earlier this year.
This hole was supposed to have been fixed earlier by having users edit the Windows registry - but this idea stunk because editing the registry is potentially dangerous. Microsoft later released a simple point and click removal tool - except this left behind the Windows Presentation Foundation plug-in which is what was just killed by Mozilla.
So, the confusion up to now has been addressed by both Mozilla and Microsoft to remove both nasty bits. Whew!
| Categories: Best Practices, Firefox Extensions, Mozilla Firefox, Security Alerts