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frostbite

8th February 2010 19:54

Dodgy add-ons for Firefox

Worth a read if you use FF

Mozilla dumps infected add-ons, issues warning - ZDNet.co.uk

call100

8th February 2010 23:53

I believe they were both from the 'experimental' area of the add-ons. Only a comparatively few downloads had occurred, 17,000 of one and 600 of the other. Good news that they have been removed and the threat neutralised..:ok:

MG23	9th February 2010 04:19

Yeah, add-ons of various kinds are the biggest security hole in any web browser: even without malicious attacks, just look at the number of security holes in Flash, Adobe PDF and Realplayer plugins. Firefox should really make NoScript part of the browser so there's no reason for most people to even have to think about installing anything else.

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