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FireFox Add-on warning on CNet

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6:51 PM
February 6, 2010


Wheezer

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Post edited 6:57 PM – February 6, 2010 by Wheezer


I found this article by accident this morning.

Since it's on CNet, I have a tendancy to trust it.

But you should make up your own mind, obviously.

http://download.cnet.com/8301-…..31-12.html

Here's a snippet of the article so you can decide if

you want to go to their site to read the whole thing.

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February 5, 2010 1:31 PM PST

Mozilla yanks infected add-ons, warns users

Mozilla on Friday pulled two programs from its

Firefox browser add-on site for containing

malware. Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0

and all versions of Master Filer were found to

contain Trojan horse code aimed at Windows

users.

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[Edited formating because sentances were

being cut off when I posted it]

                       wheezertech.forumotion.com

12:30 AM
February 7, 2010


Ramesh Kumar

Grand Master

posts 390

Thanks Wheezer for this useful tipSmile

Ramesh


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