Comments on: Remove Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant From Firefox

By: z.Yleo77

z.Yleo77 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:50:42 +0000

error… it can’t work in my pc..

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:37:22 +0000

Many commenters are wondering what harm these Microsoft backdoor add-ons cause with Firefox. Here is a possible answer:

http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2009/10/battle-of-two-softwares-microsoft-vs.html

By: Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox

Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:27:52 +0000

[...] the message were a bit puzzled as they did not install the plugin in first place. Remember the Microsoft .net Framework Assistant incident earlier this year when Microsoft installed the plugin in the Firefox web browser without [...]

By: Fede

Fede — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:55:31 +0000

How the hell the firefox code that i install several days ago was prepared to uninstall this update from MS from a couple days?
I remmeber accept the update from MS but i don’t remmeber accept firefox update his code to detect this extension and proceed to automatically uninstall whitout asking me…

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:09:19 +0000

Help? I’m coming in a bit late to this- I dont know if this stuff even APPLIES anymore. I’d never noticed or even heard of Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant until just a few mins ago. I was watching something in Win Media Player that I’d gotten online, I closed it, then I saw a message from Firefox saying that “Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant is unstable” or something like that. Asked me if I wanted to restart Firefox. So I did. Then googled it. Most of what I find seems to be from back in Feb – April, yet some is more recent. Was this situation resolved since then? Because I dont even see Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant listed in my add-ons at all. Yet, I got this message of danger or instability… Someone fill me in???
-J

By: steve

steve — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:51:28 +0000

Did it the same way Dee did it. Works like a charm. I wouldn’t recommend David’s way as it seems you are just giving MS another chance to screw with your cpu.

By: Tom195

Tom195 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:08:27 +0000

Because it shouldn’t be there in the first place. No add-ons should be installed without your approval/acceptance. This one bypasses all of that somehow.

Also, it isn’t complete or functional.

ANY software, including add-ons, that are installed and not being used are just wasting memory.

You could go around installing every piece of software you can find and then sit around wondering why your computer is so slow…

By: David

David — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:16:48 +0000

If you guys use Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 , you can go to this page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9449 to upgrade the .Net Framework Assistant, and then you can uninstall the extensions.

Hope this can help!

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:22:34 +0000

Quick solution: install the recent Microsoft patch “Update to .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 for the .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 x86 (KB963707)”. After I installed it, the uninstall option became available. I uninstalled it, and poof, it was gone.

By: david gunnells

david gunnells — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:06:25 +0000

It will also append to firefox’s useragent string. :(

By: Arno Teigseth

Arno Teigseth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:08:45 +0000

AutoCAD 2010: Also got this installed without seeing it anywhere. I’m going to complain to Autodesk.

By: Microsoft has thoughtfully updated Firefox for you. - Typology Central

Microsoft has thoughtfully updated Firefox for you. - Typology Central — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:19:07 +0000

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By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:17:12 +0000

There’s an interesting article on the Washington Post regarding this adventure, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/microsoft_update_quietly_insta.html
Says it all and said by a security professional, for those who could still doubt…

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:40:31 +0000

Run > “regedit”)
<2. Goto “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions”
(or “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions” for 64-bit versions of Windows
<3. You’ll see “{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}”. Right click it and click Delete.
<4. Restart Firefox.

BINGO! This worked. It’s now gone! Thank you!

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:22:17 +0000

# Make sure Firefox is closed.
CHECK!

# Go to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Windows Presentation Foundation\DotNetAssistantExtension in Windows Explorer
and delete everything in that folder but keep the folder name.
CHECK!

# Start Firefox.
CHECK!

The add-on should not be in the list anymore.
AHHHHH, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. It’s still there! Now what?

By: David

David — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:56:35 +0000

Wow. thank you so much! I did this and my firefox instantly ran faster. I was wondering why my internet was so slow lately. I thought it was my cable, but i realized it was firefox. Doing the regedit way deletes it from the addon menu, but doing it as the original author stated actually made my firefox run faster, thanks!

By: Piel

Piel — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:46:32 +0000

Easier way to uninstall:

1. Open Regedit (Start > Run > “regedit”)
2. Goto “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions”

(or “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions” for 64-bit versions of Windows
3. You’ll see “{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}”. Right click it and click Delete.
4. Restart Firefox.

By: Wize

Wize — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:32:35 +0000

I have disabled it. It was causing firefox to act funny (after a while of use, it would stop loading webpages)

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:13:34 +0000

Also in my add-ons > plugins page:

Microsoft DRM
DRM Netscape Network Object
Microsoft DRM
DRM Store Netscape Plugin

Where did these come from?

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:43:47 +0000

In Firefox Extension Manager’s Plugins’ Tab, appears the following related plug-in :

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers

I’ve disabled it, assuming that it is correlative of removing Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant Firefox extension. Is that correct ?