Bugs & Fixes: Firefox Squashes a Buggy Microsoft Plug-In (PC World)

PC World – Redmond turned red-faced upon learning that an automatically installed Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plug-in for Firefox opened a major security hole. Following Microsoft’s disclosure of the bug, Mozilla blocked the plug-in. According to Mozilla, Microsoft agreed with the move, even though it had released a patch to close the underlying flaw.

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Bugs & Fixes: Firefox Squashes a Buggy Microsoft Plug-In
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This article was posted by Tech Reporter Mike Wendland. It has been archieved under Today’s Tech News.

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