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Couldn't the malware replace your Firefox icon with a version that points to a malicious patched Firefox? Or whenever it sees Firefox start, it kills it it and
by Thorrez 7y ago
Couldn't the malware replace your Firefox icon with a version that points to a malicious patched Firefox? Or whenever it sees Firefox start, it kills it it and starts the malicious Firefox instead.
- proto-n 7y agoMozilla's reasoning is that these programs like to think of themselves as not malware. Configuring the user's computer is much easier to claim as "honest behavior" than patching or replacing executables.