Microsoft sneaks Firefox add-on

I'm not sure people saw this, did a quick search and found no threads about it.

Here's the link: http://www.threatpost.com/blogs/microsoft-sneaks-firefox-add-without-user-knowledge

I removed the extension myself, was absolutely unaware that M$ installed it, I thought it came with one of the Firefox update
How can I even trust them in trying their new Morro AV..

 

a bit surprising for microsoft to do this. but can easily be prevented or removed. Microsoft has done a lot of Dumb things in the passed and this is just another one of them.


If it was a security product that I was using which did this then I would be more worried.

 

the Microsoft Operating system itself is not a security product, it is rather a tool to enable you to run programs on whether it be games browsers or what ever.

So because the Microsoft Operating system is not a security product and because there is nothing else to use I will always be using Microsoft OS.

 

I do do updates from Microsoft. But I have Automatic Updates disabled because of this very reason. I first wait for reports like this thread before I download the latest updates, same policy with every other product on my pc automatic updates turned off.

 

Indeed, even the date on the blog says May, we're in July.

 

Yea there's a huge date gap here, it's probably why I (and maybe others) missed it.

 

In the last round of Windows Updates (or perhaps the one before that) Microsoft issued a fix to allow the add-on to be uninstalled. It does, however, still install.