Mozilla Firefox security breach: what should I do?

Change to Opera, as it is more secure.

Firefox is still struggeling with missing security patches, which makes it vulnerable to attacks.

Stay away from IE, as you said, is completely full of holes.

So far it's a partial hoax.

There is a denial of service bug in Firefox's version of Javascript but it hasn't been proven to be an actual security hole yet. One of the guys who made the 'announcement' as a joke apologizes for causing a panic and says it was blown out of proportion by the rumor mill:

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/200...

The Mozilla organization is working on the problem and you can bet there will be an update as soon as the fix is ready to be released:

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/200...

Use a firewall, a good spyware remover or two, and a good antivirus program.

Also, be careful about opening strange e-mails. I suspect I know what virus/hack you're talking about. And I've been getting a lot of VERY STRANGE mails lately, with words in the subject line that have been spotted as indicators of the virus.

Good luck!

If you breath, you could get the Influenza virus! If you walk down the street, you could get hit by a (car, tree, runaway-cat). Every browser has security holes. I don't know what they mean by being "un-patchable", because it sounded like the fairly common stack overrun exploit. It maybe tricky to fix, but I wouldn't call that "unpatchable".

Use a firewall, you won't have to worry about security again. I would also pack a antivirus along the sides for extra protection.

*I think if you check your dates on this info, all that happened in May of 2005. They had a hacking problem with Spreadfoxfire.com but the site is down and being rebuilt. Don't think you have a worry with Foxfire.

Yeah same problem for me, mate! My Firefox has been behaving awkwardly for three days or so.

Go here and read the truth about Firefox.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyt...

don't use it....