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how would i know if FinSpy was installed instead of the legit Firefox?

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Just read a news article about users being tricked into installing FinSpy (Finfisher?) Quote "The booby-trapped document embeds a copy of FinSpy that masquerades as legitimate Mozilla Firefox software." How would a user know if this had happened? (not that I suspect it has happened to me, or I do anything that would warrant me being a target of such a scam)

Just read a news article about users being tricked into installing FinSpy (Finfisher?) Quote "The booby-trapped document embeds a copy of FinSpy that masquerades as legitimate Mozilla Firefox software." How would a user know if this had happened? (not that I suspect it has happened to me, or I do anything that would warrant me being a target of such a scam)

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