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Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk 333

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 16, 2009 @03:14PM from the bad-microsoft-no-donut dept.

CWmike writes to mention that the "Windows Presentation Foundation" plugin that Microsoft slipped into Firefox last February apparently left the popular browser open to attack. This was among the many things recently addressed in the massive Tuesday patch. "What was particularly galling to users was that once installed, the .NET add-on was virtually impossible to remove from Firefox. The usual 'Disable' and 'Uninstall' buttons in Firefox's add-on list were grayed out on all versions of Windows except Windows 7, leaving most users no alternative other than to root through the Windows registry, a potentially dangerous chore, since a misstep could cripple the PC. Several sites posted complicated directions on how to scrub the .NET add-on from Firefox, including Annoyances.org."

Comment Re:Well duh.. (Score 2, Interesting) 95

by linkages on Friday March 02, 2007 @09:20AM (#18206242) Attached to: Secure Private Key Storage for UNIX?

If only AIX's memory management was as good as its logical volume manager. mmap on AIX is just broken when it comes to performance.
If you have more that say a dozen processes mmaping a file and one of those procs makes a change all the others _MUST_ be interrupted to have their in proc. memory cleaned up. This becomes an even larger problem when you have hundreds of procs mmaping the same file.

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