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Mozilla's Vietnamese Plug-In Infected with Malware

Posted by Susan Hall May 8, 2008 11:00:40 AM

Mozilla is increasing scrutiny of user-created add-ons after it discovered that a Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 spreads malware, reports Wired.

 

Since Feb. 18, the Vietnamese plug-in has been infected with adware that can't propagate, according to PCWorld.com. Though the company has no figures on the number of infected copies, it says the add-on was downloaded 1,200 times in the past week and 16,667 times since last November.

 

It since has pulled the plug on the language pack and rescanned, but found no rogue code in other add-ons.

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