Evil Firefox Extensions
Posted on July 26, 2006, under Security.
The Symantec Security Response team writes about the existence of Firefox extension malware in the wild. I had already pruned some of my installed extensions after reading about memory leaks, slow downs, and conflicts caused by some. (See the section entitled “Problematic Firefox Extensions“.) You may want to go through your extension list, and ask yourself if you really want/need that extension. It may not be malware, but it may be a performance drain on your browsing experience.
I’m still waiting for the first report of a ‘mainstream’ extension that will be found to have rogue code in it. It will happen.
