Trojan Warning on Firefox!
Attention to Firefox users who transacts with their banks through the internet! There’s a malware trojan spotted that can make your life a living hell:
“Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A” sits in Firefox’s add-ons folder, said Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender’s lab, quoted by NetworkWorld.
The malware, which runs when Firefox is started, uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including Barclays, Wachovia, Bank of America, and PayPal along with two dozen or so Italian and Spanish banks, says the story.
“When it recognizes a Web site, it will collect logins and passwords, forwarding that information to a server in Russia,” it states, continuing:
Users could be infected with the Trojan either from a drive-by download, which can infect a PC by exploiting a vulnerability in a browser, or by being duped into downloading it, Canja said.
It hides under name of Greasmonkey, so if you’ve never installed this, then its time to update your anti-virus software.