Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft
Linked by Kroc Camen on Sat 17th Oct 2009 05:27 UTC
Microsoft Whilst it's not okay in Microsoft's eyes for Google to install a plugin into Internet Explorer, increasing the potential surface area of attack, when Microsoft do it to Firefox, it's a different matter. Now a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox.
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RE[3]: beware the .net
by Erunno on Sat 17th Oct 2009 17:14 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: beware the .net"
Erunno
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2007-06-22

but is still interpretated code inside a browser


Welcome to 2009 where at least 3 different JIT-compiling JavaScript engines exist. ;-)

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