Mozilla Posts Critical FireFox Update

Mozilla FireFox had a major security flaw in Java, allowing scripts from websites to be executed that could possibly lead to viruses, trojans, mail-ware, and other unwanted files.

A quote from the Neowin.net post:

“The vulnerability allowed uniform resource identifiers, or URIs, in image tags to be executed even if JavaScript was disabled in the program preferences, Mozilla said. Disabling JavaScript does not protect against the flaw, so the foundation recommended that users upgrade the applications to new versions. Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client was not affected by the vulnerability, it said.”

The update is meant for FireFox versions 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10, and is said that simply turning off JavaScript would not help. The only hope for protection is to update FireFox immediately.

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