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Mozilla blocks McAfee ScriptScan Add-on

Deepanker Verma October 7, 2011 Security

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Mozilla has now blocked McAfee firefox add-on ScriptScan and this add-on is now in he blocklist of Mozilla. This is due he large number of scrashes of this add-on in recent days.
Mozilla has explained it on page saying,
“Why was it blocked?
This add-on causes a high volume of crashes.
Who is affected?
Users of McAfee ScriptScan versions 14.4.0 and below for all versions of Firefox and SeaMonkey.
What does this mean?
Users are strongly encouraged to disable the problematic add-on or plugin, but may choose to continue using it if they accept the risks described.“

McAfee is now working to fix this problems. Users can not use this add on but they will be able to install this add-on after the release of fix updatd version. MOzilla has only blocked the current version of this add-on.

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