Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability -- PCTECH

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It doesn't matter if the application is being installed automatically or
not. What matters is that the application is modifying aspects of the
system that the user/administrator is not aware of and did not agree to. In
this case, modifying the behavior of other applications.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Lukas Beeler
<lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 16:13, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If it installs itself without asking or disclosure, than by all means a
resounding yes.

How about Acrobat Reader, which automatically installs an IE or a
Firefox plugin?

Neither .NET 3.5 SP1 installs automatically (you have to opt-in into
Microsoft Update) nor does Skype or Acrobat Reader. But all of them
install Browser extensions.

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