| reply to eburger68
Re: Blaming the User: MS & WMP Adware Installations I'm not sure what to say to this, as it seems very boldly unaccommodating to Microsoft's customers. It is similar to all of the ActiveX exploits in that yes, it's an enormous security flaw that no one has bothered to educate users about but it's also more convenient for Microsoft for it to stay the way it is.
Unfortunately it looks like the way the DRM-update mechanism was designed is pretty ripe for exploitation and unless Microsoft wants to A)temporarily completely break their DRM system or B)monitor all DRM upgrade traffic personally they can't or won't do anything about it.
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