Fake Sites Insist Microsoft Bought Firefox
Author: Dave Lewis
Now this is quite funny.
Two sites — www.msfirefox.com and www.msfirefox.net — both direct to similar parodies that tout the newly purchased browser as “It’s better now like seriously” and sport IE 7-esque features, including one dubbed “Cut Away Effect,” which disables rendering of nine-tenths of a page to “save system resources.” It also claims: “This is not a bug.”Other faux features include Firefox 2007’s “TakeOver” technology that, according to the site, “protects the Windows Kernel by automatically recognizing all McAfee and Symantec programs as viruses.”
In the last two months, Symantec and McAfee have both publicly criticized Microsoft for the PatchGuard technology in the 64-bit of Windows Vista, claiming that it blocks their access to the kernel and makes it impossible for them to create advanced security features.
The “Microsoft Firefox 2007″ system requirements also tip toward the absurd. On the www.msfirefox.net site, the list includes “A Credit Card” and “Microsoft Office 2007 (Provides the ability to scroll webpages).”
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Tags: Security Humor, Security Humour, Microsoft Purchases Mozilla, Microsoft Firefox 2007
