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Silverlight? OT : to GoodGuy
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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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Silverlight? OT : to GoodGuy
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! -- s|b |
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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. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high |
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On 8/2/2015 9:04 AM, Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:27:16 -0500, Jo-Anne wrote: On 7/31/2015 6:21 AM, John K.Eason wrote: In article , (Jo-Anne) wrote: *From:* Jo-Anne *Date:* Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:41:16 -0500 I JUST received yet another optional update to Silverlight, so I went back to the ones I had hidden, and it appears I now have three optional updates--which appears to mean that somewhere I do have the program (although I can't find it). The updates are KB2636927 KB2977218 KB3056819 How can I tell if I have the program? It should be listed as 'Microsoft Silverlight', not just 'Silverlight' under Programs and Features in Control Panel. Regards John ) Remove the obvious to reply... Thank you, John! It's not there. Try "Add/Remove" and "Turn Windows rubbish on and off". It should be on the left hand side, in the little menu. Silverlight *shouldn't* be in there but one never knows with Microsoft. M. Thank you, M. Not as straightforward in Windows 7 as it was in XP, but I couldn't find any Silverlight mention even after turning on the view of all the Windows Updates in "Programs and Features." -- Jo-Anne |
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On 8/2/2015 7:21 AM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , Jo-Anne Jo- escribió: 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. That would be a VERY good thing... -- Jo-Anne |
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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! ;-) -- s|b |
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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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