Mozilla ships a compromised extension

From the Mozilla security blog: "The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 contains inserted code to load remote content. This code is the result of a virus infection, but does not contain the virus itself. This usually results in the user seeing unwanted ads, but may be used for more malicious actions. Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy." Presumably this is only an issue for Windows users, but it is still scary. More information can be found in bugzilla.

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