Mozilla: Firefox Plugin Shipped With Malicious Code

Osiris · 05-08-2008, 09:01 AM

What is the world coming to when people are crafting Firefox plug-ins with malicious code. Yes, some of the blame is on Mozilla for not catching stuff like this but the real blame should go to the scumbags that screw it up for everyone.

Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog posting. "Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy," she wrote. "Mozilla does virus scans at upload time but the virus scanner did not catch this issue until several months after the upload."

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Trotter · 05-08-2008, 09:14 AM

For some reason I am not surprised. Thankfully the more popular extensions are scrutinized pretty good, but some of the lesser known extensions could easily be used as Trojan horses. I'm amazed that it hasn't been done sooner.

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