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Firefox blocks a buggy Microsoft plug-in

November 25th, 2009 admin No comments

After it became known that automatically installed Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Plug-in for a popular webbrowser Firefox opened a major security hole, Mozilla decided to block this plug-in completely, even though Microsoft released a patch to fix the problem. It is said that Microsoft agreed with this move. At the same time Mozilla let out a Plugin Check page designed to find outdated and vulerable plug-ins, it currently picks up only a few but will be constantly updated by Mozilla. If you are using Mozilla Firefox webbrowser you might also want to grab the 3.0.15 or 3.5.5 updates, which close some holes in security and enhance privacy protection.