Mozilla has published in its blog some news regarding the incidence with the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2.In February, a Vietnamese language pack for Firefox was published. The problem was that before being uploaded to the corresponding server, it had been already infected, as the internal code of the *.xhtml files had been modified and included the following instruction:The files which contain that malicious code are detected as W32/Xorer.T.This instruction resolves to: http://js.k0102.com/01.asp , don’t worry because this URL is currently offline.The question is: how can anybody be sure that their computer is malware free?You can check it in http://www.infectedornot.com, and scan your computer with the ActiveScan 2.0 online scanner, a security solution that operates on the basis of 'collective intelligence', which allows many more threats to be detected.
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This post was written by Ted on May 9, 2008
