{"id":1309,"date":"2010-02-09T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2011-03-28T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T08:30:38","slug":"update-on-the-amo-security-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/02\/09\/update-on-the-amo-security-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the AMO Security Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we disclosed two instances of suspected malware in experimental add-ons on AMO.\u00a0 Since that disclosure, we&#8217;ve worked with security experts and add-on developers to determine that the suspected trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive and the extension does not include malware.\u00a0 The same investigation also confirmed that the Master Filer extension included a valid instance of a trojan.\u00a0 Our estimate of 6,000 affected downloads has been revised to  under 700.\u00a0 The Sothink Video Downloader has been re-enabled on AMO.\u00a0 We apologize to our users and the developers of Sothink for any inconvenience this has caused.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the team at McAfee for working with us to better understand this threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we disclosed two instances of suspected malware in experimental add-ons on AMO.\u00a0 Since that disclosure, we&#8217;ve worked with security experts and add-on developers to determine that the suspected &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/02\/09\/update-on-the-amo-security-issue\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[7105],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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