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I wonder how they're gathering that information and using it to alert the user. Is it a checksum of the file that Firefox is comparing to a central database? Or
by zymhan 10y ago
I wonder how they're gathering that information and using it to alert the user. Is it a checksum of the file that Firefox is comparing to a central database? Or is the check entirely client-side?
- gcp 10y agohttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Application_Reputation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Application_Reputation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/Application_Reputation_Design_Doc https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/Application_Reput... Local database with whitelists and blacklists, file signature inspection, and remote lookup for files with unknown, unsigned binaries in them.