Browser Security News

Firefox is vulnerable to the nasty Windows animated cursor flaw that can hand over control of your XP or Vista computer, according to a video posted by Determina, the company that originally discovered the vulnerability. In the Determina video, the speaker (possibly Alexander Sotirov, who posted the blog entry) says that under Vista, IE7’s Protected Mode mitigates the potential attack damage by not allowing the browser - or any attack that takes over the browser - to change system files or perform other common malware attacks. He goes on to say that Firefox doesn’t have a similar protected mode.

It doesn’t, in a regular install. But you can give it one using a Microsoft tool called DropMyRights. In essence, DropMyRights lets you easily put any program into a Protected Mode. Today @ PC World Protect Firefox From a Critical Windows Flaw