May 9th, 2008 in Internet by Uncle Sha
The edge Firefox browser has over Internet Explorer is the variable add-on that you can install to extend the browser functionality
Well it seems that one of the add-on has raised a red flag as it was detected having malware in it
It is a Vietnamese Language Pack for Firefox 2. You won’t suspect it right, being it’s just a Language Pack
The malware is detected as HTML.Xorer and the malicious code was a result of the author’s system or network being compromised
If you’re infected it will to load a script from a malicious website
“Trusty Firefox has malware” is sort of misleading. The malware was, as you correctly note, not in Firefox but in an optional Firefox add-on used by a very small number of people (compared not just to Firefox but to popular add-ons.)
I’ve edited the title
Thanks for pointing that out, wasn’t my intention to mislead