Recently, two Firefox stable releases for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux were made available for free download by Mozilla Corporation: Firefox 3.0.2 and Firefox 2.0.0.17. Firefox 3.x users, as well as 2.x will enjoy a better browsing experience by updating their current browser version to the latest ones which comes with many security and stability issues fixes. (more…)
The latest beta1 release of Mozilla Firefox 3.1 shows major improvements of benchmarking tests times, the browser being much faster as compared with previous versions and other existing browsers. It includes TraceMonkey, an improvement of SpiderMonkey, Gecko’s JavaScript engine written in C. (more…)
The relative irrelevancy of search results for simple queries performed by Internet users in search engines is a well known phenomenon. The new free web based service offered by Visitabout.com website comes to fill this gap and maybe to change the traditional search methods by improving the efficiency of information search process. (more…)
The future of Internet technology and web browsers is “predicted” by the new concept series project initiated by Mozilla Labs. In this project can participate people interested in sharing ideas that will help the discovery of new development directions for Firefox, Mozilla project and other web related topics in a pure scientific atmosphere of a virtual laboratory at Mozilla Labs website. (more…)
The well-known Kaspersky Labs reported that it has been detected a malicious program that infects the WMA audio files with the purpose to install a Trojan that will offer to a cybercriminal the control over the user’s computer.
The worm, which was named Worm.Win32.GetCodec.a, will convert the MP3 files to the WMA (Windows Media Audio) audio format without changing the .mp3 file extension. Then it will add a marker with a link to an infected web page to the converted files. This marker will be automatically activated during the audio file playback, opening an infected page in Internet Explorer. The user will be asked to download and install a file which, according to the website, should be nothing but a harmless codec. If the user agrees to download and install that file, the Trojan known as Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Agent.arp will be downloaded to the computer, offering to the cybercriminals the control of the victim computer.
The difference between the earlier Trojans and this recently detected worm is that this last one actually infects the audio files, while the earlier Trojans were only using the WMA format to mask their presence on the system (i.e., the infected objects were not music files). According to the Kaspersky Lab virus analysts, this is the first such case.
What’s really worrying is that a successful attack is quite likely, as most of the users tend to trust their audio files and will not associate them with any potential infections.
Happily, immediately after the Worm.Win32.GetCodec.a was detected, its signatures were added to the Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus databases.
Source: Kaspersky Lab News
The Guiness Book officials admitted - Mozilla has just set the new Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software ever in 24 hours: 8.002.530 individual downloads for the Firefox 3 web browser.
The “Download Day” idea of the Mozilla’s global marketing team seems to have worked just as expected. Guinness records manager Gareth Deaves has agreed that “Mobilizing over 8 million internet users within 24 hours is an extremely impressive accomplishment”.
The user community that supports Firefox has just proved, maybe as never before, its power and commitment. “The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was instrumental in achieving this record” agreed Mozilla marketing vice president Paul Kim.
