Jonathan Kaye wrote: > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm > I checked on the "From other news sites" section of the article for > possible sources and found this. > http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39130254,00.htm > I sound want to sound overly suspicious but the silicon article is > straddled by a big advert for Windows XP SP2. The article also says, > "Mozilla has changed its update web service and advises people to > temporarily disable JavaScript.". > I've just has a look around the Mozilla Firefox site and can't find > anything about it; not even in the firefox forums where you'd expect it > to feature prominently. > Has anyone heard anything about this? > Cheers, > Jonathan
Here is the official security advisory link from mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-42.html You should be fine as long as you haven't added any website to the whitelist to install software except the official update website. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
