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Posted 5/8/2008 9:41 AM


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Mozilla has admitted shipping a Firefox plugin that had virus-infected code in it.

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog posting last night that because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2.0 was polluted with adware.

Mozilla said that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months...

pcadvisor.co.uk
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