[LINK] Mozilla in the Frontline of CyberWarfare

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Sat Sep 1 11:39:33 AEST 2012


At 11:24 AM 1/09/2012, Jan Whitaker you wrote:
> >... simplest explanation is that the organisation must
> >be run by geeks-who-think-like-marketers not
> >geeks-who-think-like-consumers.
>
>I wrote to Tom privately about this, but since it has continued,
>think about this. AVG is a program that operates outside of Firefox.
>Firefox cannot "know" what you have installed outside of its own
>environment. Their promise to check add-ons is about those that are
>added onto Firefox. AVG is not an add-on. Firefox DOES check any
>add-ons installed and advises of impact.

I will self-correct so Tom doesn't have to he. He has informed me 
that it really was an AVG add-on and not just their browser watcher.

Jan



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