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Mozilla Wrongly Accused Sothink Addon of Malware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sorry-bout-that dept.

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."

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  1. Nice apology... sort of. by Ardx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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.

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    1. Re:Nice apology... sort of. by Ardx · · Score: 1, Redundant

      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.

      Missed the nested quotes, my bad. Thank god I don't code at this time of the morning anymore. :D

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      Whoa there dude! Check your keyboard, somebody might have slipped you a Dvorak.