Trojan in firefox

August 1, 2009

In its support for the revolutionary open-source add-ons, Mozilla Firefox quickly became a well-established name in the navigation on the Internet. However, the same approach has contributed to the fact that Firefox on the budget is currently the subject of a new Trojan horse virus.

According to BitDefender, a new Trojan horse was Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A “(in ChromeInject component refers to the chromium in Firefox). The Trojan is installed in Firefox Add-Ons catalog masquerading as Greasemonkey.

Once your system is infected, the Trojan searches on your hard drive for the victims of the passwords, account data, online gaming accounts, including the number of library card. The Trojan is also able to more than 100 websites, so that if a user visited an infected site of Troy recognizes that the virus is live and the theft of data or access to any password that is used.

Others are still waiting for analysis of the new Troy. At this point it is still not clear whether the Trojans as an add-in installed, it is not clear how the virus is transmitted. Remember that the user of the BitDefender ActiveX virus attachment to open or JavaScript, to see in an insecure manner, either by downloading malicious mounted “codecs” for preview screenshot 2 Girls 1 cup 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Mozilla has confirmed that the official download Greasemonkey, corporate repository to add, free of malicious computers software and does not contain a new Troy. According to the official download, the user can avoid a new Trojan.
BitDefender suite has already updated their antivirus to detect and eliminate viruses, other manufacturers should follow shortly.