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Sure, but I assume Mozilla doesn't recognize the Lenovo adware, so if all the web traffic is being routed through this proxy, shouldn't firefox have squawked?

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Mozilla has its own proxy settings as well, independent of Windows Control Panel configuration, so a Firefox user appears not to be impacted by the whole thing at all.

It's not clear to me. Just a few minutes ago (and after your post) this appeared on mozilla discussion forum given by [1] above (will come back to credit this- didn't copy and don't remember (and can't see!)).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134506

Down around 0200 PST 2015-02-19

EDIT: credit

[1] cpeterso https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072642

OK, so they might have added also a Firefox plugin that infects the Mozilla trusted CA list as well.

I guess Firefox should block that plugin as malicious.

Except if the adware just modify OS proxy settings, like madeofpalk mentioned. Firefox does not take those into account.

When taking Firefox into use, it imports the OS proxy settings, though. You get a warning but I guess about 99 % of people don't care about what that means.

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