As it seems to go in security research, a few people working independently come to the same conclusions. At the same time one of our crack researchers was researching exploits in Firefox, VitalSecurity was working in the same direction.
Firefox is more secure than IE in many ways, but it’s still subject to social engineering. In fact, our own researcher working on this project (no stranger to spyware) inadvertently loaded a piece of 180 Solutions adware by accidentally clicking on a JavaScript prompt in Firefox.
Any alternative browser user need only go to Lyricspy to see what can happen (WARNING-THIS IS SPYWARE DOWNLOAD SITE).
This is the real problem with spyware. People click on things and that lands them into trouble.
Much more later on this story….
Alex