4 ms·
Sure, but I assume Mozilla doesn't recognize the Lenovo adware, so if all the web traffic is being routed through this proxy, shouldn't firefox have squawked?
by MBlume 12y ago
Sure, but I assume Mozilla doesn't recognize the Lenovo adware, so if all the web traffic is being routed through this proxy, shouldn't firefox have squawked?
- HackinOut 12y agoExcept if the adware just modify OS proxy settings, like madeofpalk mentioned. Firefox does not take those into account.
- ptaipale 12y agoWhen taking Firefox into use, it imports the OS proxy settings, though. You get a warning but I guess about 99 % of people don't care about what that means.
- ptaipale 12y agoMozilla has its own proxy settings as well, independent of Windows Control Panel configuration, so a Firefox user appears not to be impacted by the whole thing at all.
- dhimes 12y agoIt's not clear to me. Just a few minutes ago (and after your post) this appeared on mozilla discussion forum given by [1] above (will come back to credit this- didn't copy and don't remember (and can't see!)). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134506 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134506 Down around 0200 PST 2015-02-19 EDIT: credit [1] cpeterso https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072642
- ptaipale 12y agoOK, so they might have added also a Firefox plugin that infects the Mozilla trusted CA list as well. I guess Firefox should block that plugin as malicious.