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Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan

An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."

Firefox add-on infected with Trojan

A Trojan-infected Vietnamese language pack for the Firefox Web browser was available for download from the open-source Web browser's official add-on site for months.

Firefox language pack provides adware back-door

Mozilla has warned that the Vietnamese language pack of Firefox 2 was compromised as a result of a viral infection.

Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code

Mozilla, the maker of the open source Firefox browser, is redoubling its efforts to check user created add-ons for viruses and Trojans after it discovered that a language pack on its official add-on page had been infected for months with rogue code, the organization reported Wednesday.

Compromised file found in language pack for Firefox

An add-on for the popular Firefox browser hid potentially malicious code, possibly contaminating the machines of anyone who downloaded it. The add-on was a Vietnamese language pack, and though it has been removed from the official Mozilla add-on website, it was undetected until this week.

Update: Firefox plugin shipped with malicious code

The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 has been infected with an adware code, affecting everybody who has downloaded the pack since Feb. 18, Mozilla warns

Mozilla: Firefox plugin shipped with malicious code

The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 has been infected with an adware code, affecting everybody who has downloaded the pack since February 18

Malware shipped with Firefox 2 language pack

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Malware, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Mozilla Corp., Language, Virus, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Security

Firefox downloads infected by ad virus

Mozilla has stopped distributing a language pack for Firefox after discovering it had been infected by malicious code for over two months.

Firefox downloads infected by ad virus

Mozilla has stopped distributing a language pack for Firefox after discovering it had been infected by malicious code for over two months.

Mozilla's Deer Hunter Download Language Pack

Mozilla has found and removed a virus from its Vietnamese language pack for their Firefox 2 browser. The virus loads remote content, showing the unwitting users unwanted advertising, but does not propagate the virus itself to others.

Firefox 3 Memory Usage

Icon"While Firefox 2 used less memory than it's predecessor, Firefox 1.5, we intentionally restricted the number of changes to the Gecko platform (Gecko 1.8.1 was only slightly different than Gecko 1.8) on which Firefox was built. However, while the majority of people were working on Firefox 2/Gecko 1.8.1, others of us were already ripping into the platform that Firefox 3 was to be built on: Gecko 1.9. We've made more significant changes to the platform than I can count, including many to reduce our memory footprint. The result has been dramatic."

Firefox Provides Increased Security Over Internet Explorer? Not so much.

It’s been reported that the Firefox Web browser has been distributing a Trojan horse application with the Vietnamese language pack. No one is sure how many users may have unwittingly downloaded the malware.

Language Weaver Bolsters Languages, Linux Support

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver said Wednesday that the firm has added support for Linux with its automated language translation tools. According to the firm, all of its language translation pairs can now run on Linux operating systems. The firm developed machine translation systems based on statistical translation algorithms, and is a spinoff the the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. Language Weaver also said that it has added new support for Norwegian-English translation; Urdu, and Hausa. Urdu--which is spoken in Pakistan and India--was released to its U.S. government customers, and Hausa is a West African language.

Firefox Language Pack Ships with Malware

One of the strengths of Firefox has been its large assortment of extensions, plug-ins and language packs, which extend its functionality in any number of ways. Internet Explorer has nowhere near the number or variety of add-ons. Of course, if one of them gets compromised.

Vietnamese Firefox 2 users were given malicious content

About 17,000 users of Vietnamese-language Firefox may have been wondering why their systems keep pulling up these video game cheat Web sites at random, for the past two months. But Mozilla didn't know what was up until last Tuesday.

SEGA DARES YOU TO GO NORSE

LONDON (19th March, 2008)– SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that a limb-severing Viking; Battle for Asgard™ Theme Pack and Picture Pack are available via the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®. Developed by The Creative Assembly, creators of the award-winning Total War™ series, Viking: Battle for Asgard is their second console game, but first title to hit this generation of hardware. The Theme Pack is filled with beautiful artwork of characters like Skarin, Freya and Hel to use as wallpapers, whilst the Picture Pack features similar character imagery. The Theme Pack is available for 120 Microsoft Points and the Picture Pack for 80 Microsoft Points. Also, there are 5 free videos available on marketplace, which show off Viking: Battle for Asgard in all its gory beauty.

17:45 - SEGA DARES YOU TO GO NORSE...

LONDON (19th March, 2008) – SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that a limb-severing Viking; Battle for Asgard™ Theme Pack and Picture Pack are available via the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®. Developed by The Creative Assembly, creators of the award-winning Total War™ series, Viking: Battle for Asgard is their second console game, but first title to hit this generation of hardware. The Theme Pack is filled with beautiful artwork of characters like Skarin, Freya and Hel to use as wallpapers, whilst the Picture Pack features similar character imagery. The Theme Pack is available for 120 Microsoft Points and the Picture Pack for 80 Microsoft Points. Also, there are 5 free videos available on marketplace, which show off Viking: Battle for Asgard in all its gory beauty.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is out

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is out Mozilla seems to be making strides towards completing Firefox 3 before the second half of the year. Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 was released today in multiple languages, and according to Mozilla there are over 750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever.

Vietnamese pack infects Firefox users

Open-source software maker Mozilla warned users on Wednesday that the Vietnamese version of its browser includes a script that is being used to target users with ads and potentially could be used to infect users with malicious code.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released

bunratty writes "Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released today. This last beta release sports performance-boosting improved connection parallelism. Not only has 'the memory leak' been fixed: Firefox now uses less memory than other browsers. This is not only according to Mozilla developers, but CyberNet and The Browser World as well. As for the Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari 3.1 and 79/100 for the latest Opera 9.5 snapshot. The final release of Firefox 3 is expected in June."

Firefox Add-On Contest Highlights the Catch-22 of Browser Extensions

firefoxlogo.jpgMozilla has launched Extend Firefox 3, a new contest for developers building add-ons for the upcoming final release of Firefox 3. There are two main categories — new add-ons that take advantage of capabilities introduced in Firefox 3, and also prizes for those existing add-ons that are ported to Firefox 3.

Extend Firefox Contest Highlights the Catch-22 of Browser Add-ons

firefoxlogo.jpgMozilla has launched Extend Firefox 3, a new contest for developers building add-ons for the upcoming final release of Firefox 3. There are two main categories — new add-ons that take advantage of capabilities introduced in Firefox 3, and also prizes for those existing add-ons that are ported to Firefox 3.

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4

Somecallmechief writes "Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso."

Photos: Firefox 3 Alpha 5 (Gran Paradiso)

Although it's not intended for public consumption, a new build of Firefox 3 Alpha 5 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. In this release, add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work. For end users, Firefox 2 remains the latest public version. The final public release for Firefox 3 is not expected until autumn 2007.

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