Part of super patch tuesday was a plug in for firefox called .NET framework assistant. It opened up firefox to vulnerabilities. Mozilla released a patch to block the plugin on friday. What a system MS has- secure our software by exploiting someone else's!
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-mozilla-blocks-microsofts-sneaky-firefox.html
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This is interesting to me for many reasons. It mentions Adobe plug-in, which I had a struggle with today. www.9news.com insists on installing it, and my IE browser freezes when it tries.
ReplyDeleteAlso, along with the updates, 2 servers failed to come back up correctly because the Microsoft updates changed the configuration settings for the .Net account.
What is MS thinking? Panic maybe?
Apparently Mozilla has now unblocked at least the .NET assistant. This was posted on slashdot earlier today, "After talking with Microsoft, they have now unblocked the .NET Framework Assistant addon and are working on a way for enterprise users to unblock the Windows Presentation Foundation addon as well."
ReplyDeleteThe link to the full story is:
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2009/10/18/update-net-framework-assistant-clickonce-support-unblocked/
Cheers,
Dave