Re: Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability

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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