When I opened Firefox today, I saw a pop up from Firefox that informed me that it has disabled the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin and I have to restart Firefox to disable it completely. I wasn’t sure what it was, but went ahead and restarted Firefox. I then stumbled upon this news in ComputerWorld that Microsoft silently slipped a plugin into Firefox without user authorization and that left the browser open to attacks. I’m not sure if Microsoft assumes that if you use Windows, they can do whatever they want to without user approval? I think it’s not enough for them deliver products full of security holes. They want to create security holes in other products too.
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