Microsoft Makes Firefox Vulnerable

Microsoft quietly installs a Firefox addon that makes it vulnerable to hackers.

This has to come under the category "What the hell were they thinking?".

The article was incorrectly not linked to it's seperate page so I stole it and put it up
seperately myself.
My Copy of the Article


Figure 1. The Uninstall button is grayed out and unusable due to the way Microsoft
implemented the original version of Assistant 1.0.

I already installed the MS patch on my machine with no ill effects so far.

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