377765 - A file that logs key strokes.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bernard Briggs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
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Webroot Spy Sweeper reported that the following file was on my computer & it was logging all key strokes [FIREFOX.EXE-28641590.PF].
I deleted the Firefox program with the said file & reloaded Firefox but the said file caame again. I deleted the program & file & did not re-install Firefox, until the problem is worked out.

Bernard Briggs.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, did you find this file in the directory C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch ? If you do, it's a Windows prefetch file, and it's created by the OS (not by Firefox). That is certainly not a danger, I don't know why Webroot Spy Sweeper reports it.

And Firefox really doesn't contains a key logger. Some extension might do it, that's why you should only install extensions from trusted sources like https://addons.mozilla.org/ .

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Bernard, can you please address the question in comment 1? Really though, Firefox doesn't ship with a keylogger, so this bug is probably WFM.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Closing as WORKSFORME.