As I reported on this blog at the time, last week Mozilla warned that two Firefox add-ons had been found to be infected by malware.
This week Mozilla has updated its blog in order to explain that one of those malware reports was erroneous – and that the detection of a Trojan horse in Version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was in fact a false alarm in the anti-virus product they were using to scan Firefox add-ons.
Of course, you have to feel sorry for the developers of Sothink Video Downloader whose reputation could have been harmed by an incorrect claim of malware infection like this.
I don’t think that Mozilla was wrong to withdraw the add-on from availability while its status was under question, but I do think there should have…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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