This is old news. As I recall Steve Gibson talked about this at length on his Security Now! podcasts (browse the archive at www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm ), and since then Microsoft has altered the settings to at least allow the .NET Framework Assistant Firefox plugin to be easily disabled or removed. -- dkm At 1/12/2010 03:52 PM Tuesday, STeve Andre' wrote: >I've been getting hints about this for the last two days. I've >not investigated this, but if true this is a nice problem. Have >other heard or delt with this? > >http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716 > >--STeve Andre'