Windows Update with Firefox


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Seems kind of risky to me. Let me see if I got this correct. What you are doing is downloading the windows updates from a third party site, correct?

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Hmm well I found that it also supports other browsers, Netscape, Opera (not 8 Beta 1 apparently)

Security Issues with the plugin

There are no known security issues with the current WindizUpdate plugin.

Uninstalling the Plugin

There is no uninstallation program supplied with the WindizUpdate plugin, so uninstallation needs to be done manually

You'll need to close all web browsers that have the plugin installed; then search your program files folders for the file npupd62.dll -- if it finds the file in a plugin folder, simply delete the dll file to uninstall. Remove all copies. In the same folder(s) may be two other files, upd62i9x.dll and upd62int.dll, these can also be deleted.

The old Version 1 plugin was called npupd.dll, it can be removed in a similar way.

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I thought that there was an ActiveX plugin that you could install in Firefox that acutally let you use the normal Winodws Update. This is still pretty neat though.

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Yeah.. nice find .. but one shouldn't mind using IE once in a blue moon to update windows.

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Especially if they use FF for "security reasons". Downloading from some random blokes site using an extension that's probably had 0 testing is a little stupid.

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Especially if they use FF for "security reasons".  Downloading from some random blokes site using an extension that's probably had 0 testing is a little stupid.

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That's what I was trying to say, only not in such a strong way.

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I first found out about it from someone's sig...on Neowin :p

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That would be mine. I put it on for a few days, but took it off after they changed a certain unimportant beta OS's name and a torrent of threads came about.

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Downloading from some random blokes site using an extension that's probably had 0 testing is a little stupid.

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No, I don't think it's stupid. The updates programs you get from Microsoft have certificates. If you want to verify the certificate of the downloads you get from his website, you need only look at the file properties.

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No, I don't think it's stupid. The updates programs you get from Microsoft have certificates. If you want to verify the certificate of the downloads you get from his website, you need only look at the file properties.

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Are you kidding me, I've seen them faked before. Yea it was spyware that did it.

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that is surely ugly... LOL bad bad interface. and i dont trust anything like that, ill stick with my IE thank you :)

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