MS roots out firefox spyware.

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

I've been beta testing the new microsoft anti-spyware, and have been 100% impressed with the results.

Not only have microsoft rounded on traditional threats like gator, but their appraisal of firefox was absolutely spot on, and confirmed what i already knew..

Check out this screenshot i took.

http://img167.exs.cx/img167/3392/mozillaadware4vs8kq.png

[the great one]

Microsoft continues to try to eliminate the competition,lol.
What's funny is the fact that microsoft is calling Mozilla a security risk.

[muffenme]

:fire

This tells you how crappy M$ has become.

:hole

[shawners]

Try Norton or AVG.. Microsoft anti spyware app?? Anti Browser competition protection?

Your still using Kazaa?? I had high hopes for you

[MikeHunt]

you continue to dis firefox because you dont understand the concept plug-ins

you may have downloaded Firefox from a third party site that bundled spyware with it.
Firefox has no spy/adware in it. period.
false positive maybe...i have run Firefox since .08 and use M$ antispy...never hadFirefox show ...anyone else here get it shown???


grab, grab ..go here to find out some interesting and useful info about Firefox..might revise your opinion
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/59/42/

(courtesy of The Hunter)

Why do you hate a browser thats open source ,blocks popups,faster, more versitile, and (for now) safer than M$ Explorer ????

did it get a bad review in Al Jezeera??

[black_magiic]

I love firefox, I would never go back. And isnt there a law against stuff like that.

[the great one]

If I remember correctly even Bill Gates said internet explorer was a security risk,so much so, that they wouldn't be bundling it with the their next operating system.

[Unsueable Davey Brown]

I'm a little slow sometimes. That pic is a joke, right?

[MACvSOG]

"Bad review on Al Jazeera" .................................................. That is some funny shit!!

[the great one]

this is interesting.

http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/2121249&tid=144&tid=78

maybe in the future it won't be far off from the truth!

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

"Bad review on Al Jazeera" .................................................. That is some funny shit!!


Funny? It's absolutely priceless. Only MikeHunt would be stupid enough to so passionately debunk a blatantly photoshopped image which was put up for a joke. Hilarious.

[mcovey]

sweet. I wish there was a linux version of that program apt-get remove mozilla-firefox just isn't fast enough.

[mfgbypooter]

LMAO@Mozilla Firefox being listed as even more threatening than KaZaA.
.

[Wolfie]

Its kinda like the pot calling the kettle insecure and vulnearable.

[mcovey]

Its kinda like the pot calling the kettle insecure and vulnearable.
tin pot vs. iron kettle.

[rebirth]

wtf is wrong with MS

[Gamer8585]

wtf is wrong with MS
Everything. *Badump...Ching*

[MoonMan]

I didn't even know MS had a spyware removal application.

[black_magiic]

I didn't even know MS had a spyware removal application.
Question. In that picture, what is being pumped into the air.

[rebirth]

that image gets me larfing everytime.

[ferrarimodena360]

opera user here

[Ne007]

that's pretty shitty of Microsoft....I'll stop installing that shit on computers if this is the case.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Its fake people. Laugh

[JiMiThInG]

You can always count on a lot of people here at ZP to fall hard for a good joke. I wish I could find that old news item someone posted a few years back about a new copy protection the record instudustry was going to be releasing called "vinyl" these new "disks" where going to be much to large to be read by standard cd-roms or computers at all :-) People fell for it totally and there where all these posts about how we would over come them and find a way to rip our music!

[Mels_Smileys45]

I remeber that! It was too funny, must find it!

[mcovey]

opera user here
same. :tilted

[TheMysteriousFuture]

Nicely done 'grab_grab_the_haddock'

<B>Posted by
<A HREF="http://cmdrtaco.net/">CmdrTaco</A>
in <B>The Mysterious Future!</B></B><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><B>from the most-worms-are-spread-via-outlook dept.</B></FONT><BR>
<A HREF="mailto:slashdotNO@SPAMbrightertimes.com">brightertimes</A> writes <i>"It seems that microsoft's new <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx">AntiSpyware
(beta)</a> is now advising users to remove <A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox</a> on
their computers.. <A HREF="http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=26937">A Zeropaid.com
thread</a>

shows the offending <A HREF="http://img95.exs.cx/img95/272/mozillaadware4vs.png">screenshot</a>
in action. Once your scanning has been done, if Firefox is found
on your computer it provides the user with a &quot;high&quot;
threat level and advising removal due to of lack of security
updates."</i>



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[nukehella]

It is only a joke because Microsoft hasn't thought of it yet.The following article is real.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39189180,00.htm

Truth can be as f***** up as fiction.

[Slycktom]

OMG... you people fell for that hook, line and sinker. And now it has been Slashdotted....That picture is a complete hoax, a ploy, a joke...etc..

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/27/1522245.shtml?tid=154&tid=218

[Dave_Man]

Smile people... you are on the cover of /.

Real good one grab grab... fooled alot of people..

EDIT: damn... SlyckTom beat me to it...

[JiMiThInG]

Ha and it all started as a joke by ToMsTer in this (http://www.p2pforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10745) thread over at p2pforums... :)

[mcovey]

lmao the thread got slashdotted. Nice work.

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

What the hell does it say for slashdot that this nonsense made it to their "news" pages? Just what kind of far out shit has CmdrTaco been smoking lately? Doesn't he even bother to check these things out before he posts them? Or even to read the frickin thread? Too funny.

btw..thanks to p2pforums for letting me rip their idea.

[CypherXero]

Just incase anyone still thinks it's real, I edited the picture in Photoshop, to prove it's fake:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/CypherXero3/mozillaadwarefake.jpg

Font: Tahoma
Font Size: 11
Font Style: Bold
No Anti-Aliasing
HEX #1A0042

[Mels_Smileys45]

Damn! almost 600 people on the forums looking at this thread. lmao



way to set a record!

[mfgbypooter]

LMAO. Kudos to _grab for bringing this place to a standstill. Jorge, you should send the guy a beanie or sumthin' for attracting so much traffic to ZP.

[Vampmon]

lol ...
http://slyck.com/news.php?story=688

[Lehk]

Damn! almost 600 people on the forums looking at this thread. lmao



way to set a record!

Hello Slashdot.
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/27/1522245.shtml?tid=154&tid=218

[MikeHunt]

ok ..I was owned


but given ....grab grab the buttocks..... past bullshittery ( about Firefox)can you blame me.??


whatever

[Miniver]

Yes we can.

[delerius]

Ha and it all started as a joke by ToMsTer in this (http://www.p2pforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10745) thread over at p2pforums... :)
Actually, it didn't start there, buddy. Check out the date on this one http://www.pabook.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8480&st=0# , post number 26.

[MStar]

That was my photoshop work. See post above.

[mfgbypooter]

Bravo.


.

[endersgame21]

LMAO, that pic sure made my day. The funny thing is, I wouldn't put it past MS to do something like that.

[Mels_Smileys45]

I just can't imagine why this was posted on /.

Grab Grab is now famous and Taco is an official idiot.

[MoonMan]

That was my photoshop work. See post above.

Congratulations! You've falsified a screenshot and impressed the entire internet community with your ingenuity. What's next ? World peace ?

[MStar]

We can only hope. :)

[Mels_Smileys45]

Awesome MStar! :bling

[Magilla]

I love thrashdot. :D

Anyway, good chop!

http://www.seport.net/viewtopic.php?t=220 :;)

[Mels_Smileys45]

This thread caused more trouble than when suprnova closed.



Oh yeah, nice spam. Your sure to pick up some traffic here :cross

[truelyme]

One of the worse places to get freeware or d/ls is from third party places like download.com or from other sites other than the original makers site. Avoid them like the plague.

If you want something like protowall or peerguardian for example, don't get them anywhere but at the makers sites. These programs were at one time and may still be filled with spyware at other sites.

Firefox itself has no spyware from the originator.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Still pwn'in after all this time.


Download.com is fairly safe because of the user rating system. Nothing is 100%, not even trying to find a direct link.

[Digital Bliss]

the pic is fake someone already brought this up old news

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

no shit sherlock.

What gave it away then? Perhpas the words "/. pwned" across the pic in huge red letters? Damn theres no fooling you...

[Mels_Smileys45]

The King retorts:


"I knowed that Firefox was bad news man. Never let a fox in the hen house if you know what I mean hound dog."

[Mels_Smileys45]

Such a classic Pwn. A great ZP moment

[Jau_Peacecraft]

eh, if it were Microsoft Firewall I think it would be mildly funny.

lol, didn't know bill admitted that about IE... it's actually alright when you disable active x (or make everything permission for active x), have spybot's ie protect, and xp-antispy, but even then yea, firefox all the way.