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Mozilla Wrongly Accused Sothink Addon of Malware
eldavojohn writes "Mozilla has admitted to wrongly accusing Sothink of distributing a video downloader with a trojan virus as a Firefox addon. From their official blog: 'We've worked with security experts and add-on developers to determine that the suspected trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive and the extension does not include malware.' Before you go download that addon, however, keep in mind that Sothink has come under fire before for GPL violations and dishonesty."
It's all well and nice to apologize, but adding the qualifier makes it sound very insincere. While the company may be guilty of GPL violations, maybe it might be a smidge more tactful and graceful to remind that on a different day.
Whoa there dude! Check your keyboard, somebody might have slipped you a Dvorak.
Ms has also have been found guilty of misleading customers.
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them.
Not more of this shit again.... A Trojan Horse is NOT a virus. It IS malware, but a virus tends to replicate and trojan horses do not, on their own. A trojan horse is just a program is the infection (In that it does something other than wanted or specified, and does so intentionally)
>>We've worked with security experts and add-on developers to determine that the suspected trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive and the extension does not include malware
It's all well and nice to apologize, but adding the qualifier makes it sound very insincere. While the company may be guilty of GPL violations, maybe it might be a smidge more tactful and graceful to remind that on a different day.
Yes, I'm certain the tactic of half-truth would work well on the showroom floor at Toyota dealerships.
"Hey, this guy wants to buy a new Camry. Should we tell him about the recall?"
"Nah. Wait until next week, after we get the sale and he's put enough miles on the car. Hopefully he won't have a problem with the pedals."
Sorry, but I'd rather have ALL the information up front to make a fully educated decision.
For Christ's sake, stop using links to previous slash dot articles if you want to show the history of something. If there was previous history, just post the links to the actual articles already. What is it that makes you think a previously posted article lends more credibility than articles that actually inform us. For fuck's sake already...
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart. -- Ann Frank
Her name is Anne Frank.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Whenever you use the downloader, it goes to their website to display a "Download Started" page, and passes the URL you downloaded as a parameter. Do they have logs enabled on their webserver? I dunno. Better safe than sorry though. Just use FlashGot, the GPL plugin they stole all their code from.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
The Nazis hauled away her "e" in the middle of the night. Nobody has heard from it since.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Still offtopic, but her name was Annelies Frank.
Ann Frank and Anne Frank are both valid spellings of her pet name, although we know her by the latter.
Ann Frank and Anne Frank are both valid spellings of her pet name, although we know her by the latter.
Jonathon can be “Jon” or “John”. Brooklyn can be either “Brook” or “Brooke”. Annelies can be “Ann”, “Anne”, or “Annie”.
Having multiple ways to spell a nickname doesn’t make all of them correct. As far as I know, Anne Frank spelled it with the e at the end.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
It's even worse when a major anti-virus/internet protection application named after a pioneer of MS-DOS utilities throws a false positive and declares your CSS to be malware.
Ya, the only license for trolls is...
Apache?
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