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By James Bucki, About.com Guide to Operations / Technology

Firefox Is Not as Secure as You Think

Tuesday November 3, 2009

Mozilla's Internet browser, Firefox has at least eleven critical security vulnerabilities that must be patched as soon as possible. Most of these security flaws exploit programming bugs in the Firefox software that expose users to drive-by downloads. These drive-by downloads require no user interaction and will allow a hacker that has attacked an existing site or created a fake website in order to entice unsuspecting web surfers to visit it and run his nasty code on your computer.

If you are running Firefox, you should update your software as soon as possible. If you have enabled the browser's automatic update feature, the software has already been patched. If your firewall or network is preventing the automatic updates, then in order to get the latest patches, start Firefox, click on "Help" and follow the directions provided by Mozilla.

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