Mozilla Bans Popular Firefox Add-On That Tampered With Security Settings (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 3, 2016 @05:55PM from the you-crossed-the-line-but-then-erased-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has banned the popular (250,000+ installs) YouTube Unblock add-on that allowed users to view YouTube clips blocked in their country. The reason for this move is because the add-on was caught disabling a Firefox security setting (code signing) which the allowed it to silent-install another add-on, which Avast (antivirus software) was detecting as malware. Earlier in 2015, the same plugin was again caught cheating when it was using an self-contained update system that was bypassing Mozilla's add-on review process.

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Re:Let THE USER Decide by Kremmy · 2016-03-03 18:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

What, are you a malware author or something? Remove this backdoor garbage from official add-on repositories.
Security design-flaw in Firefox by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-03 18:29 · Score: 5, Insightful

It should not have been possible that an add-on can change security settings to begin with.