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05-31-2007, 10:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kentucky Posts: 32,058
|  Hacking Firefox via Add-Ons
Hacking Firefox via Add-Ons
If you are a Firefox user, and I know a whole bunch of you are, you’d better read this.
According to Chris Soghoian, the Indiana University doctoral candidate who discovered the weakness, the vulnerability exists for some of the most popular Firefox add-ons, including Google Toolbar, Google Browser Sync, Yahoo Toolbar, Del.icio.us, Facebook Toolbar, AOL Toolbar, Ask.com Toolbar, LinkedIn Browser Toolbar, Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar, PhishTank SiteChecker and a number of others, mainly commercial extensions. Ironically, at least two of the toolbars listed here are designed to help protect users from new security threats. A New Vector For Hackers -- Firefox Add-Ons - Security Fix | 
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05-31-2007, 05:33 PM
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Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,480
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Google Toolbar, Google Browser Sync, Yahoo Toolbar, Del.icio.us, Facebook Toolbar, AOL Toolbar, Ask.com Toolbar, LinkedIn Browser Toolbar, Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar, PhishTank SiteChecker
| Thank god that I don't use any of these extensions | |
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05-31-2007, 06:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,362
| Re: Hacking Firefox via Add-Ons
THANK YOU FOR THE WARNING.
__________________ I am not here for long I am deploying soon so please don't expect anything long winded.
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05-31-2007, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,894
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Yeah, I don't have any of them... not that it matters. I installed the 2.0.0.4 and lost the use of all of my extensions. I will probably have to uninstall them and reinstall them, but Nightly Tester Tools doesn't want to reinstall.
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05-31-2007, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 19,803
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i don't use those either, just Siteadvisor, IE Tab, Talkback
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06-01-2007, 09:03 AM
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T.F's Resident Cool Guy... Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,625
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I see the potential for a "why not use Ie then" debate comeing on pretty soon  | |
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06-01-2007, 10:34 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,894
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Nah, it would still blow IE outa the water.
I fixed my problem... I had to delete the Mozilla folder in Application Data and reinstall my extensions. I moved my bookmarks file and cookies first, though... didn't want to lose them.
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06-01-2007, 11:47 AM
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True Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 217
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thats not good
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06-01-2007, 03:45 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tucson, AZ, USA Posts: 1,183
| Re: Hacking Firefox via Add-Ons
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Originally Posted by Trotter  Nah, it would still blow IE outa the water.
I fixed my problem... I had to delete the Mozilla folder in Application Data and reinstall my extensions. I moved my bookmarks file and cookies first, though... didn't want to lose them. | Interesting. Just upgrading did that? I upgraded on three computers without an issue. :eek:
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06-01-2007, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,894
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It wasn't the upgrade itself... a line of code got corrupted in the process. It happens. Nothing that couldn't be fixed. Reinstalling was easier than try to wade through it all to find the error. | |
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