Warp wrote:
>   Are you sure the quiet installation of the add-on happens by visiting
> a website, rather than it happening by you running an executable installer,
> which then silently adds the add-on to Firefox? I thought that the whole
> issue was that a Microsoft update, besides installing normal updates to
> your Windows system, *also* installed the Firefox add-on without asking.
> In other words, you have to run the update installer to get the undesired
> add-on, rather than just getting it by visiting a website.
> 
No, I said the silent installation of the add-on happened when you
received your normal M$ updates. The add-on itself allows other websites
to install possible malware (as I understand it).
Anyhow, what me care? (c) MAD Magazine. I run Firefox on Linux so it
ain't my problem :-)

John
-- 
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei

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