I wondered where the heck that came from. Showed up a few weeks ago here.

This raises an interesting question - what if Mozilla were to issue a 
security "update" that removed the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant from 
Firefox? Considering that the software is installed without a user's 
permission, I doubt MS would have any recourse.

Mike

"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
message news:49b0af6c@news.povray.org...
>I found this article after searching on the subject of an extension that 
>had
> appeared in my Vista firefox install - one that I had not installed, nor 
> been
> asked permission to install. I checked my work PC (XP) and it, also, had 
> the
> extension. I'm surprised there's not more fireworks going off about this, 
> as
> it's precisely the sort of thing that makes IE so much of a trundling 
> disaster
> waiting for a place to happen.
>
>  http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600
>
> Bonus: the extension installed by Microsoft has the 'uninstall' option 
> disabled.
>
> -- Chris
>

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