Firefox contains a trojan

digp

More info at Sophos

busenbust

Just in case people get the wrong idea (my emphasis in bold)

Mozilla admits Firefox add-ons contained Trojan code

Mozilla has issued a warning that two add-ons available from AMO (addons.mozilla.org, the Mozilla Add-ons website) were infected by malicious code capable of infecting Windows computers. According to a security notice on AMO's blog, the Master Filer add-on was infected by the LdPinch password-stealing Trojan, and Sothink Web Video Downloader version 4.0 was infected by a version of the Bifrose backdoor Trojan horse.

Reluctant_spender

To be more precise - two add ons have been found to contain a trojan.

Firefox itself is ok.

Reluctant_spender

busenbust wrote: »

Just in case people get the wrong idea

Mozilla admits Firefox add-ons contained Trojan code

Beat me to it!

Great minds think alike :rotfl:

surfer_blue

I have often worried that the add ons could contain dodgy code especially the grease monkey add on scripts...thanks for posting that and thank you to the person that added on the other bit to clarify the situation

i did notice on that site that "Emails which claim that pictures of Gordon Brown smiling can infect your PC with a virus have been widely distributed via email."

personally any mp smiling must be treated with suspicion.

back to the original subject, IE still has that exploit, firefox add ons arent being checked thoroughly and google chrome has "dodgy" privacy issues.....theres not much to choose between really

busenbust

thanks for posting that and thank you to the person that added on the other bit to clarify the situation

Never a prob

back to the original subject, IE still has that exploit, firefox add ons arent being checked thoroughly and google chrome has "dodgy" privacy issues.....theres not much to choose between really

I think it's all relative; no way on earth would I use IE; and Google Chrome's privacy issues do concern me (opt-in or opt-out, I don't care). I still love Firefox

surfer_blue

I use firefox too, it is far superior to IE, chrome is faster than firefox, so i use chrome for surfing mindless bumph.....(its amazing how many hours i have spent reading nothing! lol)

busenbust

surfer_blue wrote: »

I use firefox too, it is far superior to IE, chrome is faster than firefox, so i use chrome for surfing mindless bumph.....(its amazing how many hours i have spent reading nothing! lol)

Lol, and yes, you're correct, many of the comparative reviews I've read have emphasized the greater differential speed issue with Chrome. Fair point :cool:

MX5huggy

Bit of context, there are approx 270 million users of FF under 5000 have the add ons effected.

Esqui

surfer_blue wrote: »

back to the original subject, IE still has that exploit, firefox add ons arent being checked thoroughly and google chrome has "dodgy" privacy issues.....theres not much to choose between really

O what can we do?

busenbust

Esqui wrote: »

O what can we do?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.