Mozilla admits Firefox add-on malware false alarm
Mozilla has admitted it erred in labelling one of the two Firefox add-ons offered for download from its official add-on site as malign last week. Warnings that version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader add-on was contaminated by a Trojan were wrong and down to a false positive triggered by an anti-virus scanner used by Mozilla …
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Even Noobs don't use it
"...thanked McAfee for helping it sort out the confusion..."
Let me guess how that went:
"<Ring><Ring>Hello? McAfee? Mozilla here. We've got a bit of a problem. Your tool says this piece of code has the 'l33tboispwnn00bs' virus in it, but the bloke wot wrote it says it's kosher, any ideas? Oh. Right. Your bad eh? Right you are then. Yup, thanks. No, nothing else. Byeee. <Click> Fucking arsehats....."
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