https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/ The Lair of the SlowFox - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:21:54 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios slowfox personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/320300/290754 https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/13047.html Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:21:54 GMT https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/13047.html <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://alicit.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://alicit.dreamwidth.org/'><b>alicit</b></a></span> found <a href="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25485/1239/">this story on IT Wire</a> which explains a little bit more about that .NET Assistant for Firefox that was included in Windows Update.<br /><br />The bit that I was wondering about, given that <a href="http://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/12661.html">some of you were reporting yourselves unaffected</a>, is explained by the fact that the particular Update in question only kicked into play if you had the .NET 3.5 framework installed.<br /><br />The .NET framework is a set of code that makes other programs work (a, uh, framework, if you will). Whilst most of you will have some level of .NET framework installed, you might not all be up to 3.5 yet. So this possibly explains why some of you didn't have the .NET Assistant 1.0 installed.<br /><br />However. Do keep a periodic eye on the list of extensions to Firefox - once you <i>do</i> install .NET 3.5 (and at some point, unless you never download/install <i>any</i> new software on your machine, you'll have to), it <i>may</i> be that Windows Update will identify your machine as having this particular need, and sort you out accordingly.<br /><br />Hopefully, by then they'll have learnt their lesson, and actually inform you of what they're doing...<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=slowfox&ditemid=13047" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/13047.html firefox security windows Nothing is stirring, not even a dog calm public 0 https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/12661.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:37:08 GMT https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/12661.html <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/12661.html#cutid1">Microsoft installed an update on Firefox as part of Windows Update that makes Firefox inherently less secure than it had been. You need to change this</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=slowfox&ditemid=12661" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://slowfox.dreamwidth.org/12661.html firefox security windows calm public 27