Microsoft Force-Installs Firefox Extension

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And alter the user-agent of Firefox!

"Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to the web server”

How to remove it

You'll have to hack the registry of Windows for now :-(

1. Open your Start Menu and choose Run.
2. Type in regedit and click OK.
3. Within there, you have to look for something like calledHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions and delete the key there
   For Windows Vista 64-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions
4. Type in Firefox about:config in the address bar in Firefox, accept the warning
5. Remove (right click reset) general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet
6. Remove (right click reset) microsoft.CLR.clickonce.autolaunch.
7. Open Windows Explorer and go to\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Windows Presentation Foundation\DotNetAssistantExtension\ to remove the last remnants of the evil extension.

Links

• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/01/2143218
• http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=265132&forumId=1
• https://tepin.aiki.de/blog/archives/363-.net-Framework-Assistant-in-Firefox-deinstallieren.html
• http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/2009/02/02/microsoft-installiert-heimlich-eine-erweiterung-fr-firefox/
• http://nambulous.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/remove-the-net-framework-assistant-10-from-firefox/
• http://wyday.com/blog/2008/how-to-uninstall-microsoft-net-framework-assistant-from-firefox/

This is such a way

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