<p>No. In addition to. The article says on page 1 that the scan missed it when it was first uploaded. Presumably the malware signature was added to the scanner's database later. <br></p><p>This is actually a case where a security improvement WORKED - a re-scan of old uploads against new malware signatures caught the trojan, and action was taken to prevent further damage (the add-on was pulled to prevent further downloads). The only thing left would be to notify people who received the tainted plugin (maybe with a message when Firefox or Seamonkey checks for updates to it?)</p>
<p>Avery<br></p><p><br></p>
<p></p><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 8, 2010 12:38 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com" target="_blank">jlightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>What's really disturbing is at the end of the article where they say<br>
another malware previously got through and responded:<br>
<br>
'After the worm snafu, Snyder said Mozilla would boost the number of<br>
times it scanned files for malware, and would also up the frequency of<br>
scans of its entire add-on catalog "to address this sort of case in the<br>
future."'<br>
<br>
Are they really doing frequency based scanning rather than scanning when<br>
the files are uploaded?!<br>
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