08.25.06

Microsoft has offered to help the Mozilla Corporation

Posted in Firefox info at 7:58 am by melon

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Vista – new operating system is currently scheduled to be available for business users in November, and for consumers in January.

Dailyrecord wrote - ‘Vista is a serious improvement on Microsoft XP. It looks a lot better, generally works better, is more feature-rich and secure’.

Default Program is a new feature Microsoft has added to Vista to avoid the problem of applications taking over common functions, such as playing music or browsing …

08.21.06

Firefox is gonna take back the universe

Posted in Firefox info at 4:48 am by melon

This is just too cool…Firefox fans have created a 220 feet crop circle of the Firefox logo in an oat field near Amity, Oregon, where it was completely invisible from the road but unmistakable from the sky. The crop circle was made by 12 OSU students. Planned in under two weeks and completed in under 24 hours.

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08.03.06

Passed the 200 millionth download of Firefox

Posted in Firefox info at 8:50 am by melon

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Mozilla has passed the 200 millionth download of Firefox! Mozilla posted a note confirming the count: “(…) today we celebrate. Congratulations to every single person who made Firefox the success it is today.”

This …

08.01.06

New trojan FormSpy imitates Numberedlinks 0.9

Posted in Firefox info at 1:21 pm by melon

FormSpy attacks as being initiated by a spam message from the billing department of Wal-Mart, complete with a malicious attachment. When opened, the Downloader-AXM trojan installs the keylogger and sniffer components of the FormSpy.

The components remain active in the background and record mouse movements and key presses. Such information holds the potential to reveal identity sensitive information, confidential banking or credit card data, account details and login info, usernames and passwords.

FormSpy spoofs Numberedlinks 0.9, a legitimate “.xpi” Firefox file extension, …