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Story: Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers

Posted by: John McVey (Thursday 10 February 2005, 2:45 PM)

This a red herring. Firefox extensions only work from a white list, ie the disseminating web server has to be on a list which the user has affirmed themselves as being able to install software. In other words, random sites cannot install software.

Therefore for this "exploit" to work the user would have to stupid enough to manually allow the software to be installed. This is the complete opposite of MS Internet Exploiter which automatically installs software straight onto the operating system, not just the browser itself.

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Story: Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers

"Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers" "the spywa... Anonymous
Are we talking about Firefox on Windows or li... Anonymous
Thanks for your comments. I have updated... Ingrid Marson
This a red herring. Firefox extensi... John McVey
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