Updated: 8/10/09
Sun Java: DROP PREchecked non-security content from your runtime SECURITY updates !!!

A notice appears on your PC about an update for Adobe Flash Player. Adobe, in their infinite wisdom, doesn't inform Users why this update has come out.
The User, thinking that it improves the Flash Player, hurries to install it, clicking quickly through the installation pages.
When the update is done, guess what ? There's another toolbar installed to Internet Explorer !!!
In the US, it will likely be either a Yahoo or Google tool bar.
Lord knows which tool bar Users in other regions of the world will find installed.

Or, there's an update to Sun Java. Again, there's no explanation about why there's an update. Once more, the beaten down weary from constant updating User doesn't notice that Sun is also offering a tool bar, which in the US is probably the MSN or Bing tool bar. European Users will likely have other unwanted tool bars stuffed on to their systems.

Now, why are these "vendors" allowed to install 3rd party tool bars along with .... wait ... wait ...

wait some more ...

SECURITY UPDATES

Where to they get the nerve to sneak tool bars onto unsuspecting Users systems in the guise of updating their applications/runtimes/etc ?
And, why are they allowed to behave like the criminals who install malware on unsuspecting Victims' systems ?

Is it because their software is so inherently insecure that it needs security updates so OFTEN that they need to defer costs by making agreements with 3rd party tool bar vendors ?
Are they hoping that the senior citizens who can't read each and every installation page will not notice that another useless, unwanted tool bar is being installed along with another purported "upgrade" of their app/runtime/media viewer when, in reality, this "upgraded" Version of their inherently insecure software is, in reality, a


SECURITY UPDATE


NO security update should ever include anything but the update.
No tool bars, office-type suites, or anything else should ever be included with any security update, ever.

Do you get that Sun, Adobe, Ifran Viewer, or any other sofware vendor that pushes 3rd party tool bars along with SECURITY UPDATES of their software ?

This blog will monitor security updates for these and other software "vendors". The tool bars and "extras" installed along with
SECURITY UPDATES will be shown here in the hope that one day, these short sighted software "vendors" will stop foisting FLUFF along with SECURITY UPDATES !!!

I will not stop this campaign against these vendors until they learn that SECURITY UPDATES can not be used to increase revenue, rather, they are MEANT to address VULNERABILITIES in their software.

Should I include the phrase SECURITY UPDATES once more in the hope that these "vendors" will get it or is seven times enough ?

Signed,
One Highly Annoyed User Who Refuses To Take It Anymow !!!