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Firefox: how much freer can it get?Alert Sunbelt Blog reader Jesse C alerted us to this one. We’ll just quote his email to describe what’s going on:“After a fresh install of Windows, I pulled up IE and did a Bing search for 'firefox.' The *sponsored* result at the very top of the list is from 'fire10fox.com', which seems to want to install something called 'hotbar' along with a cluster of other seedy looking things, all to get something that's already free!”Yep, it was still there this morning:VIPRE detects it as Trojan.HTML.FakeAlert.e (v)(click on image to enlarge)(click on image to enlarge)(click on image to enlarge)(click on image to enlarge)Thanks Jesse C (continue reading...)

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