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ZDNet Australia  | May 09, 2008

Mozilla has stopped distributing a language pack for Firefox after discovering it had been infected by malicious code for over two months. Although Mozilla's Vietnamese language pack for Firefox has been compromised by the malware, labelled HTML.Xorer, since February, the problem was only discovered...
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