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6 Sep 2024 09:18:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Warning: Microsoft silently installing firefox extension  
From: Darren New
Date: 7 Mar 2009 00:05:15
Message: <49b2008b$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> I dunno, mucking about with other companies' software?  
> 
>> Installing an extension in a documented way is "mucking about with other 
>> companie's software"?
> 
>   EU laws probably forbid the kind of action described here. "You
> accepted our EULA" is not an excuse if the EULA in question is illegal.

Um, OK. So how does a virus cleaner work with the EU laws?

I don't know about you, but I got told when MS was adding the extension to 
firefox. Maybe I just didn't click thru the notices everyone else did, or 
maybe they changed it by the time I installed it, or something.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
   unable to read this, even at arm's length."


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