[governance] More MS security holes: Firefox Disables Microsoft<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET Addon

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Wolfgang and all,

  Here is a huge example of why MS's opinions on IT security
have been less than reasonable.  If anyone needs more of same
please let me know, I have a host of others.

See:http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/10/17/2058240

"Around 11:45 PM Friday night, I was prompted by Firefox
that it had http://www.pcworld.com/article/173858/mozilla_blocks_microsofts_buggy_firefox_plugin.html
disabled the addons that Microsoft has been http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/01/2143218&tid=11 including with .NET — specifically, the .NET Framework Assistant and the 
Windows Presentation Foundation. The popup announcing this said that the
'following addons have been known to cause stability or http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/16/189243
security issues with Firefox.' Thanks, Mozilla team, for hitting the kill 
switch and hopefully this will get Microsoft to release a patch sooner." 
Here's the http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/10/16/net-framework-assistant-blocked-to-disarm-security-vulnerability/
Mozilla security blog entry announcing the block, which Mozilla
implemented via its https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Add-ons+Blocklist
blocklisting mechanism.

Regards,



Jeffrey A. Williams
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