"This is a very serious breach of user trust. Not only is this package delivered without explicit approval, it's also made difficult to remove. Moreover, its use is not clear. Lastly, the change affects third-party software, not one of Microsoft products, so the question is, what the hell did Microsoft want to achieve with this nebulous, spyware-like update?"
That question was posed by the author of Dedoimedo, a website specialising in step-by-step tutorials, when he found that the latest update to Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (KB951847) secretly added a strange new component to Firefox ...
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some kid posted this on gametrailers forums and people laughed at him. he also said something about xbox users having a secret place they gather loyal fans at to go on random forums and post bad crap about the ps3...at first i laughed but wow, reading this confirms he was right...
EDIT* i will edit this cus i remember, his original post said microsoft wanted to destroy the ps3s webbrowser by making the ps3 way slower. wow, people said why would microsoft risk such a thing, and if this turns out to be true, goodbye it is DOUBLE EDIT* wow, i was so interested in this story, i went and found the forum post, it went to 11 pages before it got locked, but the OP was dead on if this is true. http://forums.gametrailers....
That seems really weird, and really it should be approved by the user, or at least mentioned in the Microsoft documentation. I'm curious as to what it does now...
Well I don't know if the Firefox team can post and lawsuits solely because of the way their browser was built. The article doesn't mention what the plugin does, what if Microsoft wants to expand Firefox functionality has a gateway drug to bring people to Internet Explorer like they do with the Mac?
Really strange addon. Though I have my doubts that Microsoft actually did this, it's more likely that a hacker / disgruntled Mozilla worker slipped this in and tried to pin the blame on Microsoft. But I guess anything is possible.
Luckily I do not have this installed on my Firefox so I don't have to deal with it.
Edit: Thanks Lord Anubis, that's pretty bizarre to be sure.
I wonder where this will lead.