Mozilla retracts Firefox add-on malware claim
Mozilla Corp. today acknowledged that it had falsely accused a developer of infecting a Firefox add-on with attack code.
The admission came a week after Mozilla announced that a pair of add-ons, Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and Master Filer, had slipped through its security check-in. According to the company, both were infected with Trojan horses designed to hijack Windows PCs. Mozilla removed both extensions from its official add-on download site.
Today, Mozilla said that it had been wrong about Sothink Web Video Downloader. "We've worked with security experts and add-on developers to determine that the suspected Trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive and the extension does not include malware," Mozilla said in a statement posted to its add-ons blog.
