It might be a good idea to be careful with Firefox extensions. A password stealing add-on was discovered recently that had been downloaded about 2000 times. This is according to 'Threatpost.'
Another add-on that had problems was 'CoolPreviews,' which according to Threatpost Mozilla admitted had a critical security vulnerability. CoolPreviews had been downloaded at a rate of about 77,000 times each week.
According to Threatpost in May, 2008, Mozilla admitted that a worm had gone unnoticed in a Firefox Vietnamese language pack for months.
According to Threatpost in February, 2010, Mozilla warned users that the Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer had a Trojan horse that potentially could spread to the user's PC.
It appears that maybe Firefox add-ons are not as secure as some people think. A lot of people use various add-ons in Firefox. It might be wise to be careful. Or, a person could keep thinking Firefox and its add-ons are still much more secure than Internet Explorer.
I twice tried to use Firefox on my computers. After all, all of these security experts say that Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer-right? Both times security software found potential problems.
I was attacked personally here when I dared to suggest that open source software could be attacked by malware writers, or malware even deliberately be put into open source software.
Another add-on that had problems was 'CoolPreviews,' which according to Threatpost Mozilla admitted had a critical security vulnerability. CoolPreviews had been downloaded at a rate of about 77,000 times each week.
According to Threatpost in May, 2008, Mozilla admitted that a worm had gone unnoticed in a Firefox Vietnamese language pack for months.
According to Threatpost in February, 2010, Mozilla warned users that the Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer had a Trojan horse that potentially could spread to the user's PC.
It appears that maybe Firefox add-ons are not as secure as some people think. A lot of people use various add-ons in Firefox. It might be wise to be careful. Or, a person could keep thinking Firefox and its add-ons are still much more secure than Internet Explorer.
I twice tried to use Firefox on my computers. After all, all of these security experts say that Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer-right? Both times security software found potential problems.
I was attacked personally here when I dared to suggest that open source software could be attacked by malware writers, or malware even deliberately be put into open source software.