Bugs found in Firefox and Mozilla, again

My AVG virus scanner caught a Trojan the other day that was attempting to install through Sun Java/Mozilla 1.7.5 exploit. Suprised me!

There are 2 boxes. Enable Java and Enable Javascript. Do I need to uncheck both or just the javascript??

Thanks for helping the computer illiterate. :D

Javascript. I just did and retested and came up clean.

due to serious error.

Any suggestions as to what I should do? I'm not very computer literate.

Thanks so much.

Don't download, unless you really know what you're doing. I expect the formal release of 1.0.3 in the near future. It is amazing how fast the Mozilla people update their code.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/aviary1.0.1-l10n-candidates/

Indeed. They're great.

Too bad M$, with their billions in the bank, still can't release a stable, secure, and standards compliant product.

this particular bug is an eight year old Netscape legacy. It is a fossil from the closed-source time.

Too many sites rely on JavaScript for functionality to be worried about a minor exploit that, know the team over at Mozilla, will be fixed rapidly.

Sounds like somebody at the Inquirer's got a bone to pick ("Mozzarella foundation"? "FireRodent"?) and when he can code a completely secure browser, I'll listen to what he has to say. Firefox still blows IE out of the water in terms of security and it's made by volunteer labor! Think about Microsoft's resources vs. Mozilla's and maybe this Nick Farrell character should ask "Can't these people code?" of Microsoft instead? Somehow, I get the sense that they're on the M$ payroll. Or at least fellating them, based on a number of their articles.

That said, security is less of a reason for me to use Firefox. I tend not to visit disreputable sites that would potentially use this exploit.

As a web designer, I appreciate that the Mozilla engine has the absolute best standards support of any browser available - right alongside Safari and Opera, to a lesser extent.