Closed Bug 201497 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

message appears: mozilla is connected

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: rxw, Assigned: asa)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

when i was browsing some sites, my firewall report that someone is trying to
connect to my mozilla by TCP ports 1080,6588.

disabling the firewall  to see what happens, i receive the follow message:
mozilla is connected. and i see a lot of data transfer in one 56k modem.
using netstat -a i saw some more connections that wasn´t from current webpages.

this happens twice, one in Linux(i was as admin updating the system) when i was
browsing kde.org website.
and now in win98 when i was browsing winamp website.

closing the mozilla, or restarting the firewall, these connections are blocked.

what the hell is it?


Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1.i´m dummie in hacking
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Your build is too old to log bugs against.  Please upgrade to Mozilla 1.4a, and
reopen this bug if the problem persists.

->INVALID
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
ok boss - i'm using mozilla 1.4 rc1 build 2003052908 now!

when i'm navigating in some pages, i receive the follow warning from firewall:

Someone from 23.21.Bu66.in-addr.arpa [66.117.21.23], port XXXX wants to
connect to port 1080 owned by 'Mozilla' on your computer

the port XXXX is range, the invasor is making a port scan.
when i disable the firewall the connect and i receive the message that "mozilla
is connect"

also happens in mozilla firebird 0.6

i have no plugins installed...

i don't know how it's done because i'm not a hacker.
i have some knowledgement about security, only.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
oh! i've forgot!

my antivirus in windows 98 is up to date(norton av 2003) and it means that have
no possibilty of virus or trojan horse. 
in linux knoppix (debian based distro) also happens... 

and the last attack happens in this site:
http://www.proeffect.com/
*** Bug 208315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marcelo: If you're still seeing this problem, what do you mean exactly when you
say a message is displayed that says "mozilla is connected"? Where do you see
this message? Is it in a dialog that Mozilla pops up, or something from Windows,
or your Firewall? It looks to me like some random people are portscanning you
for whatever reason, and since one of the ports in use happens to be owned by
Mozilla, the firewall "blames" it for the problem. I'm not saying this is
definitely not a problem in Mozilla, but it seems unlikely. Thanks for any new
information.
i haven't seeing this problem in new version of Mozilla since my last post.

this has happened when i was navigating is some web pages.

is an dialog that Mozilla pops up, not Windows or Firewall, because it's also
happens in my Linux. it's similar that javascript function "Alert", but the
pages that i was navigating (winamp.com/kde.org) doesn't use popups or javascrit
alerts.

this is not a simple port-scan, my firewall - Zone Alarm in Windows, configured
for ask, in Linux ,Tiny Firewall - warn me about a incoming connection to
Mozilla, as server.

if i allow these incoming connection, Mozilla pops up that message. if i not
allow-it, the firewall block-it.

i know that seems unlikely, but my Mozilla is pure, without plugins or anything
that can contaminate-it.

i'm sorry for not give you more information about this, because it's all that i
have for now.
jhenry: -> WFM ?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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