That is, it's more complicated than just enabling the Uninstall button. NET extension) are being installed on a system-wide level, they have to be removed on a system-wide level. The uninstall button being disabled is a Windows user permission problem (limited-user vs. It shouldnt let the uninstall button be disabled under any circumstances. It seems to me that the real problem is Firefox. Even if Firefox were to add extra checks, I can just find and bypass those checks.
Similarly, I can install any extension I want when Firefox is not running - it won't be able to stop me. If I wanted to overwrite the firefox.exe with all 0's, Firefox wouldn't be able to stop me. Firefox has no control over how the user modifies the program. and really should let anything be installed without user permission. It's straight coming off as soon as this installer finishes.
application file and fires up the ClickOnce install." Sounds like a way to download and execute arbitrary code to me. application in IE our mime handler is invoked which downlods the. NET framework I am running, so that they can target the precise security exploits exposed in that version. One thing I have discovered that it will do is to tell any dodgy website advertisement exactly what variant of. I've been trying to form a search query on Google for the last 10 minutes, just to find out what this thing is supposed to do, and all I can find is "how to remove it" instructions. My problem is that I have carefully selected the add-ons and permissions of things in my browser for maximum security, specifically so that random people from the Internet can'd just do drive-by installs of stuff I neither want nor need.Īnd then MS, in an unrelated install (MS Office 2007, thanks for asking), puts in what looks like a honking great security hole right through the middle of this without asking. Talk to Microsoft about finding a proper solution to this. NET developers like me just that little tick harder to deploy any applications for EASY install." But it's the only one where you theoretically could open a DLL file with a full, directly processor run application in it, and it would run fullspeed, not the way slower java stuff, that takes ages to load in a browser, if its something bigger. Security sucks, which is important today, yeah. We would still use Active X for active content because it's still the fastest and most flexible technology for internet plugins. But who would do that? Two negatives by now:ġst: Well, IE still has some good market spaceĢnd: Every error stops the browser from really interpreting. You can easily lock IE users out by deploying your markup file with the application/xml+xhtml (or was it?) content type. If it weren't for any virus programmer a$$holes, we would have a happy life with our maybe Opera or Mozilla browser, because it's true that IE sometimes doesn't go into standards that much. If you don't have Visual Studio Professional it's the only built in possibility.
You won't have to build your own update program (although I did already) and setup. There are not many ClickOnce apps yet, but it's a nice technology to deploy applications. NET developers like me just that little tick harder to deploy any applications for EASY install.Įveryone sees Microsoft and just tries to uninstall.