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Firefox, FormSpy , and various nonsense

Tocca lasciarmi andare ad un piccolo ritorno di fiamma IT-related . Si rincorrono su molteplici fonti di informazione, nelle ultime ore, notizie più o meno vere (ma soprattutto più o meno mal interpretate e ancor peggio esposte al pubblico) su un pericoloso exploit in grado di smanazzarsi a piacere il browser Firefox, con conseguente generoso scatter to the four winds of data potentially relevant also very private little things like the number of credit card and other amenities.

Premise One: Firefox is the Ciufolo me, do not use it, would not recommend it, it's a nice fake minimal chic sundries indeed rather snobbish. Premise number two: it would be very reasonable that any install Firefox extensions should always provide a final approval by the human interface (perhaps in conjunction with a closure / reopening the browser itself) regardless of any third Cases can bypass the prompts. And do not tell me that 90% of people would say yes to any request without even knowing what it is: it is true, but it is another matter.

That said, I will try to explain in a few words because Firefox is believed to be (almost) innocent. If your operating system NOT already resided for some other reason the cause of the problem, that is the Trojan horse that McAfee has identified as AXM Downloader , the problem would not arise at all. Interestingly, this Trojan horse exploits two fundamental weaknesses in order to peep in the poor PC. The first seems to be on a vulnerability Microsoft dating back to about 3 or 4 years ago, enormous, in computer terms, and if it were actually what I think (HTML code that could exploit the vulnerability CODEBASE, or something very similar), already largely exceeded shortly after the time of the discovery of the same, there would be no excuses for failing to protect the system . The second weakness, the premise of having sheltered the poor from antiquated Windows dangers silent and self-installing, it is of course the human factor: one of the best ways to find himself at home FormSpy remains as always a nice place where you do not click should, in this case that it sends up running the Downloader AXM mentioned just before. Greetings & kisses.