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Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan

Posted by timothy on from the when-childhood-goes-wrong dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."

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  1. virus's signature was unknown .. by rs232 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I didn't know software developeers relied on 'virus signatures', I thought they used MD5 hashes. And of course you don't download from any old site. Have sound security practices changed in the meanwhile?

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