[LINK] Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Mon Oct 19 11:15:23 AEDT 2009


At 10:27 AM 19/10/2009, Birch, Jim wrote:
>When I started FF this morning it told me it had disabled the dotnet
>plugin and would wipe it fully next restart.  Not sure what mechanism
>did this, but I'm assume there's a bad plugin zapper built in to FF.
>Nice. I'm running 3.5.3 on Win7.

I looked in my 3.5.3 and the offending plugin wasn't there anyway. I 
don't know if it comes with Windows updates or what.

Jan



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