Originally Posted by stormkeep
subject line of OP is misleading. "Sneaks" implies the user has no way of seeing it coming. In this case, it is mentioned quite clearly on the download page as well as how to remove it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...1-6383ba034eab.
The only way that is sneaky is if the person installing it is blind and not using any kind of text to speech. Or if the user is too mentally challenged to make sure they find out what they are installing when they do an update. I would expect a wowmatrix user to consider it as "sneaking" but not someone here on Wowinterface. |
So, it's your position that those users who have automatic updates for MS setup ("You have updates.") are really to blame when Microsoft adds a component to someone else' software that increases their security risks?
That the headlines informing people that such a breach of both ethics and etiquette are wrong for so doing? That those who have this installed without knowing about it are "mentally challenged"?
Finally, the removal method is well documented, but requires editing the registry and cannot be done through the standard mozilla methods of removing the plugin. But, because it's documented, they aren't "sneaking"? When the license that said that any document transmitted through any MSN service, including Hotmail, was property of Microsoft, you believe that because it so stated (in the fine print), that anyone who didn't like it was in error?
Must be nice to live in your glass house.