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Next Firefox Will Block Add-ons by Default

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Aug

2011

Starting with Firefox 8, Mozilla will automatically block browser add-ons installed by other software until users approve them, a company product manager announced yesterday.Software-bundled add-ons have been a problem for Firefox users, who have sometimes been surprised to find browser extensions show up on their machines without their consent.An add-on included with Skype, for example, […]

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Banker Malware Massively Distributed in Spain

21

Jul

2011

We have been recently notified of a banker malware that is being distributed in Spain. This malware, which Trend Micro detects as TROJ_BANLOD.QSPN, is reported to arrive via mass-mailed spam messages that pretend to be coming from the National Police of Spain. The email contains a link which leads to download TROJ_BANLOD.QSPN – a downloader […]

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Firefox out-of-band update, this time for Mac users only

13

Jul

2011

Mozilla released an update to Firefox 5 yesterday – but for Mac users only. This takes Mac users of the popular browser to version 5.0.1. Everyone else stays at 5.0. This isn’t really a security fix: it deals with two reliability problems. One of these (Firefox crashes when using a downloadable font) manifests itself only […]

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