Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack infected with Trojan horse
Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday, that the language pack for Firefox 2.0 is infected with Trojan horse.Most worse thing about this plugin is that, it is available on Mozilla addons website, from where Mozilla Firefox users download extensions, themes and useful stuff for their Firefox browser.Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of a malicious code injection which could load remote content and drop the infections on the affected system.The Firefox plug-in has already been removed from the Mozilla Add-on page, but users who want to download the Vietnamese language pack have to wait a few days until a clean version of the file is re-published.
The Firefox plug-in has already been removed from the Mozilla Add-on page, but users who want to download the Vietnamese language pack have to wait a few days until a clean version of the file is re-published.
According to Panda Security, the Xorex.O Trojan horse which was detected in the Firefox plug-in only affects the Windows platforms, namely Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95.
Window Snyder Says :
Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy. While we cannot determine the exact number of compromised downloads, there have been 16,667 total downloads of the Vietnamese language pack since November 2007, so we anticipate the impact on users to be limited.
Mozilla does virus scans at upload time but the virus scanner did not catch this issue until several months after the upload. We are also adding after-the-fact scans of everything to address this sort of case in the future.
A new language pack will be available shortly. Until then, Vietnamese language pack users should disable this package using the add-ons dialog on the Tools menu.
Source Window Snyder Blog
Virus found in Vietnamese language pack
May 9th, 2008 at 6:45 AM
That’s so ironic…BTW, I’ve subscribed to your feed
May 9th, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Thts not a good news
May 9th, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Today my system was down so no new post for today. thanks for comments