[Gllug] Unasked for plugin "installed"

[Nick Richards]

> >> been installed into Mozilla 1.6...
> 
> Any idea what the plugin was, or where it came from?
> This sounds a bit like the spammers, virii-writers and rip-off
> merchants have latched on to moz.

Yep they have, that's why new versions of Firefox (and I presume
Mozilla 1.8 betas) only whitelist installs from updates.mozilla.org
and add a couple of other handy bits of chrome to make it harder for
nasty people to make your browser less happy.

Nick
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