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Firefox contains a trojan
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QtWeb: www(dot)qtweb(dot)net0
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More info at Sophos
when posting something such as this give all relevant details, this is something you'd expect from the Sun or any other publicity seeking misleading headline.
Firefox as others have stated already is NOT affected directly, it is a couple of 3rd party addons that Sophos are warning about.
Firefox remains my default browser.0 -
Not only that, but it turns out to have been a false positive
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2010/02/09/update-on-the-amo-security-issue/0 -
"Thanks to the team at McAfee for working with us to better understand this threat."
Hmmmm.0
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