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axod
on Oct 18, 2009
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Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes "Critical" Hole In Fi...
That's not anti-ms. That's just good security. I'd like to know when something is messing with my browser executable.
swolchok
on Oct 19, 2009
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Like I said, it's not effective. If malware wants to futz with your browser executable, it's just going to patch the executable, not conveniently go through the plugin interface around which you've designed some forgeable security token.
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