mozillaZine posted an article/warning on Thursday, July 27th, in regards to a Trojan Horse Mozilla Firefox Extension. The Trojan Horse, dubbed by McAfee as FormSpy and Sophos as Troj/FireSpy-A is installed by a Windows malware known as Downloader-AXM. This piece of malware is used to download and install various Trojan Horses. For Firefox users, it downloads and silently installs (bypasses the installation warning) a modified version of Numbered Links 0.9 extension. While Numbered Links 0.9 is a legitimate extension the Trojan version will capture and send banking info along with passwords entered in Firefox as well as those for ICQ,…
August 1, 2006
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On Monday, July 31st, the Firefox download counter crossed the 200 million mark. More info can be found at Spread Firefox.