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Mozilla has the official release of Firefox 12. In the latest release, Mozilla has included the update service for Windows that spares users the (UAC) pop-up. As Firefox is installed in the Programs directory, it requires higher privileges for updating. Instead of asking users for the required privileges via UAC, it now uses the Mozilla Maintenance Service to update program files. Firefox executes the service with system privileges when it is needed and closes it after the update. An (ACE) in the update service allows Firefox to launch it with system privileges even though the browser itself does not have them. Users can enable or disable the service in the Firefox menu under Options Advanced Update ('Use a background service to install updates').
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When this service is combined with the 'Automatically install updates' option, Firefox takes care of version maintenance on its own for the most part. If users don't want to be warned when an update may disable incompatible add-ons, they can also uncheck the corresponding box. The final result should be an almost silent update that, at most, only alerts users after an update has been successfully applied.
How well this actually works will not be known until Firefox is updated to version 13 in six weeks time. For Mac OS X and Linux, Silent Updates are currently for version 14. Google's Chrome browser has updated itself since its initial release, and Microsoft has also been with updating Internet Explorer through Windows Update without users having to do anything. But this new update is in response to corporate and business IT Admins who felt the frequent release of new versions of Firefox caused them more and difficult work where they had to step through the updates on each of their machines because of UAC. This way Firefox updates itself and causes less problems for those IT guys while at the same time keeps itself secure against new vulnerabilities and threats. But easy to turn off and I have done so myself in Options Advanced tab then the Updates sub-tab.
I've just been advised that Mozilla have added a 'Service' to the OS list of Services called 'Mozilla Maintenance Service', (Control Panel Administrative Tools Services). It is a Service that is not set to run automatically but is used by Firefox whenever an update is due to be installed to get permission from Windows to install without going through UAC. The service otherwise uses no resources.
Although it can be disabled from starting at all, doing that will mean that Windows will continue to display the UAC permissions request whenever an update is due to be installed. It can also be disabled in FF Options Advanced Update sub-tab and removing the tick for 'Use a background service to install updates'. I've left mine on.
The successor program to spyware toolbar is being used to target users of with fake browser updates, a security comp any has alleged., the reprised Hotbar app, run as of May last year by a new entity called Pinball Corp, is being fed to users via a fake but convincing Firefox update page. The update page - which users would come to through a search engine for the latest updates - looks identical to the genuine page in everything bar the version it is claiming to offer (3.5 where the most recent is 3.6) and some misspelling.
Windows users fooled into downloading and installing from the fake page will actually be getting a toolbar app that also hits the user with pop-up ads and a weather application in the system tray. According to eSoft, the software is actually being fed without the direct knowledge of its creators, Pinball, which will likely be p Artwork: Chip Tayloraying a third party affiliate for every install. As with the distribution of the original Zango Toolbar, how that install gets on to a user's PC is not their business. Zango after several years in which it was accused of sneaking spyware on to users' PC without their consent, invariably by paying third parties to do the dirty work.
In 2006, it was fined $3 million by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its actions. It should be pointed out that what is at fault here is not the new toolbar app per se, but the way it is being distributed by a separate entity and installed under false pretences. As ever, an application becomes legitimate if the user consents to its installation having had the proposition explained in an accurate way, but that is certainly not happening in this instance.
The genuine install site for Firefox updates can be. This story, 'Fake Firefox Update Spreads Spyware' was originally published by Techworld.com.