I have received a few emails asking how to turn off the irritating “Please uninstall Wizz RSS” page. I’m sorry to say that there isn’t much you can do to turn it off, unless you uninstall or dive into the Wizz RSS code.
I know for a fact that many people ignore warnings that I have posted over the years. On two previous occasions I have posted warnings with regard to backing up feeds before upgrading to a newer version of Firefox, only to have people get on my case when their feeds went missing.
To those of you who have chosen not to uninstall Wizz RSS: Sorry for the inconvenience. I promise that it won’t continue forever. If only one single Wizz RSS user gets hacked because they didn’t see the notification about the vulnerabilities, I would probably be held responsible. When I’m happy that all ± 100 000 Wizz RSS users have seen and read the notification, I’ll turn the irritating notification off.
Is there a way that I can download my feeds off of the server now that I have uninstalled? Do they still “live” anyplace? I have an account on the server but don’t have an absolute URL to it. Can you please give us some hints on getting back our feeds? Thanks!
Jen, your saved feeds are quite safe. Email me your username – mikek01 at telkomsa dot net – And I’ll email your saved data back to you.
Mike,
I deleted Wizz off my home machine but still have it installed at work. I know you’ve pulled it from download, but is there any way that I can copy the files from my work box so that I can reinstall it at home?
Thanks.
THERE REALLY IS A GOD!
Thanks, Mike. You’ve soothed my frazzled nerves.
Do I need to uninstall if I have 3.1.0? If so how do I do it? Please let me know when your new version is available. I have saved by exporting the opml code. Will that work?
Thanks,
Mary Ann
I uninstalled Wizz RSS a long time ago, and yet I still see the message every time I log in. If you have any tips on how I can stop seeing this message, that would be awesome. I have no interest in being warned about something that I haven’t really ever used.
@Ann: As far as I know, if you uninstall Wizz RSS, there is no way that the Welcome page can be displayed. Having said that, it also true that over the years many different people have complained about the same thing. Honestly, I have absolutely no idea what causes it. I have in the past been accused of coding something in Wizz RSS that prevents it from being uninstalled, which is certainly true.
@MAO: Sorry, I seem to have missed your comment
A new version is now available – http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/11/17/vulnerability-safe-versions/
How do I un-install?
@Dave: Please see http://www.wizzrss.com/helpwiki/index.php/Uninstalling_Wizz_RSS
Mike – Thanks for all the hard work through the years. I use WIZRSS daily – could not live without it. I’ve installed 3.1.0.5 to fix the vulnerability. I know you said you cannot guarantee anything but you seem like a very smart person so can you somewhat qualify the risk of continuing to use 3.1.0.5 as “extremely small” “very small” “somewhat small”. Just so that we can assess to what extent things have been fixed – MANY THANKS!!!!!!
Dear Mr Mike
First of all I would like to thank you for creating and mantaining WizzRSS.
I know and respect your reason about the trouble with FireFox security and your subsequent choices , but allow me to say a little thing about the uninstall notification page.
In meanwhile time you waiting that ALL the WRSS users read the important message you decide to publish can you please reduce(not STOP!)the number of notifications for users able to confirm you the acknowledgement ?
I believe it is possible if you can identify each installed version of WRSS (by serial, checkSum, email, pc identity etc..) in that way you can reduce the notification to acknowledged PC.
The risk is that the message still be repeated infinetly until all WRSS users aknowledge your info, it seems not a good thing!
Furthermore I think you deserve what you asking for but the notification you sent may be intended by someone as a security issues not as nag screen that invite to donate.
I renew the invitation to all users to DONATE!
Thanks again
Regards