Fake Download Site Offers Firefox as Bait

A fake download site has been created for the Firefox browser, which provides users with contaminated software.

"Web users taken in by the scam will wind up downloading browser software contaminated with the Hotbar toolbar from Pinball Corp, formerly Zango," writes The Register's John Leyden. "The software bombards marks with irksome pop-up ads while also further slowing performance by loading the Hotbar weather application in the system tray."

"Security firm eSoft, which documents the risk here, reckons that the ruse is more likely the brainchild of a rogue Pinball agent rather than the firm itself," Leyden writes.

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