A Trojans found on firefox 2.0 plugin
Written by IT News on 5:16 PMFirefox is powerful browser in the planet, most of people are use this free software, and its become more famous when there is available a lot of plugin. But do you know some virus are working on firefox 2.0 plugin?
The package will be installed on language in Firefox 2, which consumers want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnam has developed a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, Mozilla's chief warned yesterday. The worst is that the plug was the right to Mozilla add-on from the side on which the user to download and install, themes and extensions for Firefox. Window Snyder said that the Trojan is the result of an injection of malicious code, the distance at the expense of content and the reduction of infections on the system into question.
"The Code is the result of a viral infection, but not the virus itself. This is reflected in the rule by the user, the unwanted ads, but May be used for other malicious actions," he wrote in the blog secondment.
The travellers were download package for Vietnamese language since 18 February 2008 was to their computers infected, the official Mozilla. "Well, that we not determine the exact number of downloads of compromise, there are a total of 16,667 Vietnamese language pack downloads since November 2007, we anticipate that the impact on the user limited," he added.
As the Trojans bypass the search for viruses at the Mozilla Firefox download an add-on? "The virus scanner has not this question, several months after the transfer," Window Snyder said.
The Firefox plug-in was already deleted from the list on the Mozilla site, but the users who want to download the package from the Vietnamese language to wait a few days before its own version of the file is new.
According to Panda security, Xorex.O Trojans, was in Firefox plug-in for Windows platforms, namely Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95
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