John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> There was a reference in the article (linked in OP) to a known exploit 
> in IE, FF, and Opera.  While MS has needed a smack on the head for its 
> ongoing love affair with unsafe features, the people who make FF and 
> Opera need a double-smack.  Their alleged superior security is a large 
> part of the reason that people use them.

  Just because the article says that you are vulnerable to the exploit even
if you are using Firefox or Opera, that doesn't mean that it's the browser
itself which has been compromised. It may be the OS which has been
compromised.

  Just as an example, if a trojan installs a keylogger in the system which
sends private information to someone, including eg. things you write in
secure webforms with Firefox, does that mean that it's Firefox which has
been compromised?

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