Mozilla Plugin Check Now Does Windows (Sort of)

Summary: Mozilla's Plugin Check site, which inspects Firefox for outdated and insecure plugins, expanded to check Safari 4, Google Chrome 4 and up, Opera 10.5, and partially Internet Explorer 7 and 8. In Krebs' testing it could not locate version information for about seven of ten Firefox plugins, three of nine Safari plugins, and two of 11 Chrome plugins, and on a clean IE8 install it prompted him to install Adobe Flash Player.
Why it matters: A checker that reports on only a fraction of installed plugins can leave a user believing they are current when they are not, and one commenter reported the tool returned wrong results for Java - the same outdated Java Krebs had written about as a malware vector.

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Topics: Data Breaches
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