Re: Mozilla extensions: a security nightmare

Posted by Thomas D. on Aug 12

Hi,

Mario Vilas wrote:

Correct.

OK, installing into %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA% will remove Windows’ tampering protection.
I hope you are not arguing that because nowadays many application will install into %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA% they
became “safe” because they are so many?!

Remember how the thing with %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% started/became mainstream: There was a small search corp. who
thought they need to develop…

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