Last week, I received a tremendous reader response to a post I wrote about a security update from Microsoft that silently installed a “Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant” add-on for Firefox that was difficult and risky for users to uninstall. Given the emotional buttons this subject pushed among a large number of readers, I’ve put together a brief update along with some information provided in the comments to the previous post. Since that posting, someone pointed out that Microsoft has issued a patch in an apparent bid to appease those who have cried foul about this silently installed add-on. The patch is available and detailed at this link here. The update patches Windows systems so that the add-on installed by Microsoft can be successfully uninstalled without the user having to manually edit the Windows registry. (While editing the registry isn’t all that difficult, a misstep can cause serious problems and it