Virus Found in Firefox 2 Plug-in

The language pack supposed to be installed in Firefox 2 by consumers who want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnamese got compromised by a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday. What's worse is that the plugin was posted straight on the Mozilla Add-on page from where users download and install themes and extensions for Firefox. Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of a malicious code injection which could load remote content and drop... Read »

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