Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan 200
An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."
Downside of OSS (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm not saying commercial software is perfect in that regard (there have been cases of commerically distributed software containing malware too), but at least there is generally some level of quality control there.
Proprietary software has the same risk (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Downside of OSS (Score:2, Interesting)
Joe Six-pack is not going to be as upset when he gets infected by the free thing vs. the thing he had to pay for.
Is this fair to say? Can anyone say that better then me?
Re:Downside of OSS (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Downside of OSS (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Downside of OSS (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Downside of OSS (Score:4, Interesting)
Accident Waiting to happen - Should Sign All Updat (Score:2, Interesting)