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Vietnamese internet users who downloaded Mozilla Firefox's language pack recently discovered their computers had been infected with malicious coding.
The browser company made the admission in a post on its blog, noting that its in-house virus scanner had failed to notice the problem until several months after the upload had been made available.
It stated that the code allowed remote content, such as unwanted adverts, to display on users' screens but Mozilla reassured users that no malware had been loaded onto their machines.
"While we cannot determine the exact number of compromised downloads, there have been 16,667 total downloads of the Vietnamese language pack since November 2007," the post continued.
Earlier this year, a batch of digital photoframes were shipped which contained a virus which uploaded itself when the hardware was plugged into a computer.
It was reported that the frames contained a Trojan which tried to steal sensitive information such as passwords from its host machines.
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