[ShadowAce]

[brytlea]

I am pretty much stupid about this stuff, but use Firefox. What does this mean for me? Do I need to do something?

[brytlea]

I am pretty much stupid about this stuff, but use Firefox. What does this mean for me? Do I need to do something?

[TChris]

"Security researcher", and he intentionally releases the attack code to the public?

Sorry, dude, that makes you no different than any other scumbag, black-hat hacker in my book.

[DariusBane]

Ok let me get this straight. A “security researcher” releases code that is toxic to a browser? I have always suspected that the anti virus people and the hackers are one and the same. They run a protection racket. Anything here that I’m missing? Believe me I don’t claim to understand the world of IT, but this seems to confirm what Ive always suspected to be true. Am I right?

[Bean Counter]

This sounds like this Russian is selling a program that is capable of hacking into someone’s system, via Firefox.

Is that not a computer crime? What possible legal use is the product this Russian is peddling??

[zeugma]

"We've played a lot with it in our labs - it was very reliable," Legerov wrote in an email to The Reg. "Works against the default install of Firefox 3.6. We've tested it on XP and Vista."

My question would be, does it work on real operating systems?

Linux and OSX come to mind.