Comments on: .NET Framework Assistant Blocked to Disarm Security Vulnerability

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:29:43 +0000

There should be a default setting to prevent any change to Firefox without your permission – one that you have to deliberately change manually if you want it otherwise.

By: Ahmad Barirani

Ahmad Barirani — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:23:15 +0000

I love the fact that Mozilla has to step up and protect Microsoft clients from Microsoft.

By: sikiş

sikiş — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:38:47 +0000

When I went with Firefox, it was a vote against MS’ ability to make secure browsing apps.

Allowing them to silently install insecure scripting engines into Firefox is… well, a real slap in the face for the people who thought they’d moved away from that.

By: Daniel Veditz

Daniel Veditz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:44:06 +0000

Chainsaw: are you sure the crashes are due to this? WPF usage should be rare on the web, and a plugin isn’t even loaded unless we encounter content that requires it.

By: Chainsaw

Chainsaw — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:33:18 +0000

It crashes every computer here at the university that runs Firefox. Continually. No special action, just use Firefox, browse some web pages, but don’t forget to save bookmarks regularly, because when it crashes, Firefox can’t recover anything. Thankfully, after a couple of these, Firefox figures it out and disables the damned thing. But only for that user, on that machine, and not permanently…

When there’s functional Noscript and RemoveItPermanently addons for IE, I’ll consider switching.

At this date, it BEHAVES like malware. So it should be blocked until it no longer does this.

And the function it performs, is to make it easier to accidentally run untrusted apps off webpages by just clicking on them. Didn’t we just spend ten years trying to STOP browsers from doing this??? So the only way to REALLY make it not behave like malware is to disable the larger function that it is trying to assist…

By: komba

komba — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:01:42 +0000

like .net but its coding too cmplicated not user friend

By: windoz

windoz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:33:17 +0000

It is your system and it xas part of a service pack. Funny how long it takes since the first install.

By: freedom defence

freedom defence — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:23:52 +0000

I’m dispointed to have found out that mozilla allowed these MS plugins to be installed in the first place, as this makes me question firefox security which I always trusted. I was happy with the action they took, but now I’m even more disapointed to find out they have taken the .Net Framework Assistant off the blocklist, because Microsoft say it is safe.
Well sorry I don’t believe this, I don’t trust Microsoft and their so called experts, I believe it is a security risk and it should not be allowed to be automatically installed like that.
What happened to freedom of choice?????????????
The very browser I trusted for my security, turns out to be just as vunerable as any other browser.

By: luminositee

luminositee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:27:38 +0000

Thanks for figuring this out–I noticed it in my add-ons awhile ago and couldn’t figure out how it had gotten there. After spending a bit of time trying to uninstall/disable it, I gave up (I love firefox, but I don’t know much more about computers than this: http://xkcd.com/627/). So, I’m really glad to finally know what’s going on with this app and how to uninstall it!

By: Chevy

Chevy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:32:28 +0000

WOW!
That’s why I use linux….