Experts predict Firefox spyware will show up this year

newsforge ^ | Monday February 07, 2005 | Jay Lyman

[thoughtomator]

Unlike Microsoft, however, the folks who develop Firefox will not spend a year in denial about it, and if a company's business requirements don't permit the wait they can fix it themselves on their own schedule.

[Reagan is King]

Can we just take the spyware developers outside and shoot them? Okay, j/k but how many work hours are wasted every day just removing spyware or installing the latest IE updates to fix the holes? Many productive hours down the tubes.

I use Firefox but I figured it would be a target someday if it continued to grow.

[swilhelm73]

bttt

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Basically, if you use Firefox today, you're not susceptible to any spyware

This isnt right, I use mozilla and get spyware all the damn time when I use AdAward-SE or Search & Destroy to clean my computer

[MJY1288]

I found out about FireFox here on FR and I think it's great

[BigSkyFreeper]

Okay, j/k but how many work hours are wasted every day just removing spyware or installing the latest IE updates to fix the holes? Many productive hours down the tubes.

You make it sound like every business is on dialup. I downloaded and installed SP2 on my sister's computer over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and it took no more than 20 minutes to download, and 2 minutes to install and reboot.

It took an overnight download on dialup on my system. I rebooted the next morning when I got up.

[dennisw]

Will M$ pay some Hungarian hackers to find and exploit security holes in FireFox? They are happy to take $100 bills, American dollars over there

[xm177e2]

If FireFox does become more of a liability than a convenience, I'll go back to MSIE (or whatever browser is best).

Until then, I'm glad the competition is forcing certain companies (::hack:: MS ::koff::) to improve

[JoJo Gunn]

A no brainer PING!

[beaver fever]

Of course it will, fresh meat for the anti virus community which is the same as the hacker community.

Talk about your make work project. Meanwhile Firefox will give me a welcome rest in the meantime anyway.

[jdm]

Any tech-savy person know why when I go to "File > Import" in Firefox the bookmarks in IE do not transfer to Firefox, as they should? Thanks.

[1stFreedom]

MS is prolly leading the charge on developing spyware for Firefox...

LOL

[ElkGroveDan]

Thank you for the warning Mr. Gates.

[RegT]

I'm using Mozilla on Linux right now, and hope to God that it dosen't become a major malware target.

I partitioned my HD and bought the SuSE Linux distro just so I could go online safely.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Spyware should be made illegal.

[Reagan is King]

I get plenty of notices to update security holes in IE between major updates and throw on top of that having to run Ad-Aware and Spybot S & D on a regular basis to get rid of the browser exploits and hijackers on IE. I know I've wasted plenty of working time messing with IE and the problems just stopped once I started using Firefox several months ago. I'm glad you like IE but I've had nothing but problems with it.

[ex-Texan]

*BINGO*!

[softengine]

FYI -

Just in case you took my advice...

[Danette]

I just downloaded and installed Firefox today. I think I like it. I hope it keeps all the spycrap out.