On 03/17/2015 06:15 PM, walt wrote: > On 03/17/2015 05:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> Mozilla installs a >> privileged service that auto updates its software. > > Interesting. I didn't know about 'privileged services' in Windows. > I hope M$ grants these 'privileges' carefully.
You mean the user. Any app can install a service like that if the user lets them. I'm assuming Mozilla's service runs as a SYSTEM user so it can modify things, but I've never cared enough to look. I always remove the Mozilla Maintenance Service and update manually. Dan
