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Old August 2nd 15, 01:17 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike Tomlinson
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Default Silverlight? OT : to GoodGuy

En el artículo ,
Dominique escribió:

Hello, do you have an idea why your posts are always followed by
something that looks like some programming code?


He posts in HTML despite Usenet being a text-only medium, and because
he's an idiot.

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Old August 2nd 15, 01:40 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 13:17:04 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

Hello, do you have an idea why your posts are always followed by
something that looks like some programming code?


He posts in HTML despite Usenet being a text-only medium, and because
he's an idiot.


Hear! Hear!

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Old August 2nd 15, 02:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
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Mike Tomlinson wrote:

Dominique escribió:
Hello, do you have an idea why your posts are always followed by
something that looks like some programming code?


He posts in HTML despite Usenet being a text-only medium, and because
he's an idiot.


"Good Guy" (who is not) recently described himself as a thirtysomething
person who "loves to annoy you." He certainly does that. He has been in my
killfile for a very long time.

Fortunately, when people do happen to reply to him and quote what he
writes, the HTML crap is not included.

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  #52  
Old August 2nd 15, 06:22 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Silverlight? OT : to GoodGuy

On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:35:30 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote:

Of course you know he just loves when people talk about him, right? It doesn't matter what people say as long
as he is getting attention. It is a form of mental illness.

As others have said, the best thing to do is to kill filter him, and the other caustic posters, and not
discuss them in the forum.


He actually /is/ in a (global) kill filter, but I have a watch filter on
myself. I reacted in this thread, so that filter became active and I
couldn't resist reading some of the reactions. Mea culpa. I'll behave in
the future, promise! ;-)

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Old August 2nd 15, 07:52 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Silverlight?

Mike Tomlinson wrote:

Jo-Anne:

What I did recently was set Flash in Firefox to ask to activate.


Very sensible, absolutely the right thing to given the enormous number
of bugs, vulnerabilities and security concerns that have been found, and
are still being found, in it despite Adobe having had more than 20 years
to fix it.

There have recently been calls for Flash to be killed off altogether,
and momentum is growing, so hopefully before not too long you'll be able
to uninstall it and it can be consigned to the cesspit of history along
with Silverlight.


http://www.cvedetails.com/product/67...l?vendor_id=53
511 vulnerabilities

Note that some also include vulnerabilities in Adobe Air, Adobe's
library they include with their products, like Adobe Reader.

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/11...l?vendor_id=53
199 vulnerabilities

You should get rid of Adobe Air, too. That means getting rid of Adobe
products that rely on Adobe Air (so replace Adobe Reader with a
different PDF viewer, like PDFxchange Viewer).

Those lists are a total count of vulnerabilities over time, not only the
current ones where the vulnerabilities still exist. Those lists do not
have an option to search on only Open status vulnerabilities (to
eliminate the Closed status ones).

For Silverlight:
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19...l?vendor_id=26

Silverlight is much newer, is more secure and robust than Flash, but
it's a typical too-late response by Microsoft to long-time existing
competition in a field where Microsoft finally decides to participate.
There is little use of Silverlight. Unless you actually have a site
that you require is fully functional (i.e., you must have Silverlight to
see all content rather than only some of it at the site) or use an
critical application that demands the use of Silverlight then don't
bother with Silverlight. Of course, disabling the add-on in the web
browser does not stop a different application from using Silverlight, so
you could leave Silverlight installed for the other application but not
bother with Silverlight in your web browser.

From your responses, doesn't look like you need Silverlight at all.

Of course, Microsoft isn't clean, either. For just Windows 7, see:

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/17...l?vendor_id=26
 




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