Closed Bug 747590 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

free-downloadmozila.com offering faulty Firefox installers that contain adware only

Categories

(Marketing :: Trademark Violations, task, P2)

Product:
Marketing
Type:
task

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: Tobbi, Assigned: liz)

Details

(Whiteboard: under legal review) 

I was just searching through the results that offer Firefox downloads, thus finding 

http://www.free-downloadmozila.com/

It offers a ~900kbyte big "Firefox executable", which (of course) doesn't appear to be an official one. Virustotal.com didn't detect a virus though, but that doesn't mean that it might not be malware.

Virustotal report:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/ff586755ca65555a7ab2226891aedd6fe93fbb9b0fa25fc5fb4e218e53d7a70f/analysis/1334971868/

Direct link to the executable:
http://download.domaiq.com/download.php/35/190/firefox/24/173
or http://www.free-downloadmozila.com/download2.php
Summary: free-downloadmozila.com offering faulty Firefox installers → free-downloadmozila.com offering faulty Firefox installers that could probably contain malware
Assignee: gerv → liz
Component: Licensing → Trademark Violations
Product: mozilla.org → Marketing
QA Contact: licensing → trademark.violations
Version: other → unspecified
Ok, I ran the executable in a sandbox. No malware is offered, but it's an installer that asks the user one after another to install adware (toolbars and other crap). Of course, no Firefox is being installed from what I could see.
Summary: free-downloadmozila.com offering faulty Firefox installers that could probably contain malware → free-downloadmozila.com offering faulty Firefox installers that contain adware only
Thanks Tobias. We'll try to get this site removed.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P2
Whiteboard: under legal review
Hello liz,

another site that does the same thing is http://www.firefoxfast.com 

--Tobbi
New site:
http://www.newfirefox4.com/about-us

I am uncertain how much info you can give me on legal proceedings, but: What's the current status of this?
It looks like the site doesn't exist anymore!

Marking wfm.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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