Users who have installed the browser to see added in Vietnamese also installed adware.
Some 16,000 people may have been infected.
Problems of security for Firefox. The free browser has been distributed since its official website that an addition addition to the functions for which it was designed, installed in the computer users with an advertising program.

Several security companies today speak of the incident, which affects the software package qu epermite use Firefox on Vietnamese. Those who download, install also unknowingly on your computer adware Xoer, says today Hispasec.

Window Snyder, Mozilla charge of security, has indicated that this organization, responsible for the development of Firefox, "examines the files when they are uploaded to the server" but in this case "the antivirus not hunted malware even months after having risen".

Although not known the exact number of downloads plug infected, the addition has been downloaded over 16,000 times since November 2007.



Snyder has added "these things happen" and said Hispasec as it is an affirmation absolutely true." At the end of 2006 distributed Apple Video iPods with an executable infected in late 2007 Best Buy sells digital frames with malware. In 2006, HP distributed by mistake controllers infected with the FunLove virus ... Sendmail, Wordpress, OpenSSH have ... troyanizados been on occasion. "