Why did Mozilla want to install a "keylogger test" when I tried to add on realplayer?
I recently tried to install Realplayer on FF48.0. When I went through find add-ons and came to: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?q=realplayer&appver=48.0&platform=windows it wanted to install "Remote Keylogger Test 0". Now anything with 'keylogger' in it I am wary of. So, what's going on?
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Whaaat? As a security-conscious user, would you really want to install an extension that
- has only preliminary approval
- has 0 reviews
- shows 273 users -- which may or may not be real
- was written by a user named ph1sh3rm4n
Unless that was my friend's add-on, I say NFW.
P.S. On the right side, under the blue button to Write a Review, is a Report Abuse link. I just did, but if you add your voice as well, that may speed things up.
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer modificouno o
Incidentally, RealPlayer is proprietary software that you would need to get directly from its publisher. http://www.real.com/
This is not the RealPlayer Plugin as it is just a Extension made by somebody that is under preliminarily review. It is not made by Mozilla as the vast majority of extensions being hosted at addons.mozilla.org are by a third-party author or company.
https://addons.mozilla.org/faq
This is the Real Player Plugin.
http://www.real.com/
http://www.real.com/resources/firefox-realplayer-plugin/
James modificouno o
jscher2000 said
Whaaat? As a security-conscious user, would you really want to install an extension thatUnless that was my friend's add-on, I say NFW. P.S. On the right side, under the blue button to Write a Review, is a Report Abuse link. I just did, but if you add your voice as well, that may speed things up.
- has only preliminary approval
- has 0 reviews
- shows 273 users -- which may or may not be real
- was written by a user named ph1sh3rm4n
I of course did not allow it. And I reported it as abuse. This type of thing must happen a lot I'm guessing.
Mozilla does not allow just any Extension to be approved. https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/AMO/Policy/Reviews
A place to bring up extensions that are a concern like this one is at https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/add-ons as it is the Forum link on bottom of the https://addons.mozilla.org pages.
James modificouno o
btw this "Real_player-addon" extension was added to blocklist on Aug 17 and is no longer on addons.mozilla.org
James modificouno o