Mozilla Kills Password-stealing Firefox Add-on

[JMcEntegart]

Mozilla has removed a Firefox add-on that, when installed, stole users' passwords and login information from various different Websites.

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[Tamz_msc]

Mozilla is pretty quick with updates.

 

[lashabane]

No Firefox girl?

 

[eddieroolz]

It's too bad not all extensions are tested prior to approval, but I suppose that would be unfeasible.

 

[iolas]

People that make this crap need to be found a put in prison.

 

[lashabane]

[citation][nom]iolas[/nom]People that make this crap need to be found a put in prison.[/citation]
So we can pay for their luxury stay with our taxes? No, we just need to Alt+F4 them.

 

[killerclick]

I'm sick of Big Software trying to run our lives and telling us what we can or can't use!

 

[mitch074]

@killerclick: if you want to keep running faulty add-ons, you can - they just ensure that you KNOW it's buggy/unsafe, when they turn it off through blacklists.

 

[abbadon_34]

but...but...firefox is secure...what is antivirus?

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Why would you install an add-on containing the word "Sniffer?"

 

[Wolygon]

[citation][nom]lashabane[/nom]So we can pay for their luxury stay with our taxes? No, we just need to Alt+F4 them.[/citation]
Maybe he meant a third world prison...now thats an idea.

 

[rohitbaran]

Why would people download this add-on in the first place? Well, I think if people can be content with their iphone 4, they could download such crap as well.

 

[Wolygon]

"giving the attacking script control over the host computer."

Not when I'm sporting No Script.

 

[JonathanDeane]

[citation][nom]the_punkinator[/nom]Maybe he meant a third world prison...now thats an idea.[/citation]

Outsource prison... I like this idea, a lot of them would probably do it for like 1/10th the cost we pay here now.

 

[swamprat]

[citation][nom]JonathanDeane[/nom]Outsource prison... I like this idea, a lot of them would probably do it for like 1/10th the cost we pay here now.[/citation]
Maybe it could be called Bantanemo Guay or something like that, I can't see any problem at all.

It'd have been interesting to see what the add-on claimed to do since as someone mentioned earlier, it doesn't sound like something anyone would want. Unless there's another exploit that installs add-ons remotely or maybe someone wrote it to install on someoneelse's computer that they had physical access to.
Interesting, but not interesting enough for me to use the interweb to find the answer.

 

[bustapr]

Aww, coolpreview was pretty good for me, baad to see it go away.

 

[triplebug]

Good job firefox.

 

[kikireeki]

Admirable dedication Mozilla, carry on the good work.

 

[ksampanna]

That's the problem with Open Source

 

[figgus]

[citation][nom]ksampanna[/nom]That's the problem with Open Source[/citation]

Yeah, it's always scary to see a company fix a problem instead of putting it off until the next big security patch.... Oh, wait