Getting Firefox installed on your computer is your first step to using it. The below reading will show you how to install Firefox on Linux. Many Linux distributions include Firefox by default. Some distributions include IceWeasel, which is a version of Firefox with the Firefox trademarks removed. Most Linux distributions have a ...

AVG Internet Security is a software package for Microsoft Windows. It includes a firewall component, which controls which programs can access the outside world. If AVG Internet Security is not set to fully allow Firefox, Firefox will be unable to connect to web sites and may generate "Server not ...

Security researchers warned today that a new class of vulnerabilities dubbed "clickjacking" puts users of every major browser at risk from attack. Details of the multiple flaws -- six different types, by one count -- are sketchy, because the researchers, who presented some of their findings at a security conference earlier ...

To change your privacy settings go to the toolbar at the top of the page, click on [Tools], then on the drop down menu, click on [Options]. On the options page click on [Privacy] and the information you need to tell your new Firefox 2 browser are on this page. ...

Refreshed hardware, refreshed company. Watchguard has overhauled its Firebox Core and Peak e-series UTM (unified threat management) appliances, amongst a number of improvements, doubling firewall throughput. Unified threat management (UTM) specialist Watchguard has upgraded the security features of its FireBox X e-Series appliances with the second significant firmware refresh in six ...

Security researcher Thor Larholm, who helped discover the flaw, said that it was "an input validation flaw" in Internet Explorer. He said the bug stems from IE's URL protocol handler, which enables IE users to launch applications through links on Web pages. If a malicious link opens Firefox, IE can ...

Are Macintoshes just a “little” more secure? Here’s a good article on a security flaw “discovered” in the last week in Mac OS X 10.4, a vulnerability in the interaction between Quicktime, Java and a Macintosh web browser, including Firefox and Safari. It enables a malicious programmer to ...

Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 is vulnerable to attackers armed with the Windows animated (ANI) cursor exploit, that yesterday (3 March) promoted Microsoft to rush out an emergency patch. Alexander Sotirov, the vulnerability researcher at Determina who discovered the ANI flaw last December and notified Microsoft of it later that month, yesterday ...