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Skype "Extras Manager" - Beware. Beware Some More.

One of the things that has always bothered me about Skype, even in the days when I was actively using it, encouraging my friends and family to install it, and helping others with problems in the Skype User Forums, was the very questionable way that they go about quietly installing "additional software" on users systems. I believe that they actively try to "sneak it" onto systems without users noticing, because the selection box for the Skype "Extras Manager" (and the infamous Skype browser add-ons for IE and Firefox) are tucked away in an "options" screen which I claim 99% of the people who install Skype never even notice, much less go to and consider the implications of what they are agreeing to allow Skype to install. (Questions: How many people reading this have Skype installed on their computers? How many of those noticed the "options" button during installation? How many of those actually clicked that button and went to the options page? How many of those actually understood what those options meant, and that by allowing their installation they would be adding third party software to their computers?) Until now almost all of the problems related to this have been serious bugs and loss of functionality. Not just Skype functionality, mind you - the "browser add-ons" are well known for causing IE and/or Firefox to crash, hang, or just make pages unreadable, and have even been know to block internet access completely or even crash the entire computer. The "Extras Manager" went through a phase a while back where it just kept eating more and more memory and cpu power until the system either became unusably slow or crashed. But now, Skype has reached a new low with their "Extras Manager". Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has written in his ZDNet.com blog describing the new fiasco. It makes for an interesting read. What I find the most typical about it is Skype's reaction - basically, caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they immediately start stammering about it not being what it obviously appears to be, it was a mistake, we didn't mean it... and then they come up with what I think should be the ultimate Skype quote for all time: "...it neither installs nor un-installs correctly..."!

Windows XP Vortex Vista 3G red-Edition x86/x64

Windows XP Vortex Vista 3G red Edition (x86/x64) * KB967715 The updates offered in this article correctly disable the Autorun features Internet Explorer 8, included: Windows Media Player 11, included: * KB928788 - FIX: Windows Media Player 11 may not work correctly when you use the Media Sharing feature to stream Windows Media format video content across a home network * KB929399 - You repeatedly receive a message to install update 929399 on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows XP * KB929773 - FIX: You hear an unexpected noise or a problem in the audio playback when you play back a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file on certain hardware devices * KB932390 - FIX: The encoder cannot use the Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codec after you install Windows Media Player 11 on a computer that uses Windows Media Encoder 9 Series * KB933547 - FIX: Windows Media Player 11 may crash if you plug in certain flash memory devices while you use Windows Media Player in Windows XP * KB935551 - FIX: Device connection is disconnected when you synchronize lots of files between Windows Media Player 11 and a Windows Mobile device * KB935552 - FIX: Windows Media Player 11 may stop responding when you transfer media to a device that uses the Media Transfer Protocol and then you cancel the transfer process * KB939209 - FIX: When you use an application to play DRM-protected video content in Windows XP, the application may fail * KB939683 - FIX: Update for Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP * KB941569 - MS07-068: Vulnerability in Windows Media file format could allow remote code execution * KB944882 - FIX: The memory for an application increases for each file that you transfer when you transfer media from a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows XP to a portable device * KB952069 v2 - Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959807) * KB954067 - FIX: You see lower quality video when you use Windows Media Encoder 9 Series or a similar Windows Media Format SDK-based encoder to encode a video * KB954154 - MS08-054: Vulnerability in Windows Media Player could allow remote code execution * KB959199 - FIX: Windows Media Player seems to crash when you click an Outlook 2007 link to a local file or a UNC path DirectX for WinXP Post-SP3 November Update * Microsoft Update Catalog Web Control v7.0.6000.569 * (KB892130) Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.9.9.1/(KB905474) Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications v1.9.9.

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