The week in your words: Facebook, IT RIP and Safari stealth

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Posted on 28 Mar 2008 at 14:31

Mozilla boss attacks Apple over auto-installing Safari

And finally to Mozilla which was less than pleased with Apple for using its iTunes updater to install the Safari browser on Windows PCs. A practice it decried as bordering on "malware distribution practices".

It was equityguru who lit the blue touch paper...

"It's time Apple was seen for what it clearly is, worse than Microsoft."

Predictably, that comment didn't pass quietly. "Apple isn't forcing Safari on you, there's a check box. If you are so quick to click the install button without checking what's being installed, then you have no place in any discussion about social engineering and malware when next that topic is raised," retorts paulzolo, who's clearly a graduate of the same anti-fence sitting school as mamsystem and member of the same "stupid people should be ushered onto a small island and pelted with stones" camp as davidbryant4.

Which brings us neatly to the end. See you all next week.

Author: Stuart Turton