Closed
Bug 811435
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
Blocklist DealCabby add-on silently installed by FVD Suite installer
Categories
(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)
Toolkit
Blocklist Policy Requests
Tracking
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RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: kmag, Assigned: jorgev)
Details
I'm not entirely sure what this add-on does. It seems to be some kind of ad-injection crapware. It gets silently installed (bypassing about:newaddon) by the FVD Suite installer, to which users are referred by the FVD add-ons hosted on AMO. ID: dealcabby@jetpack
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Updated•12 years ago
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Summary: Blocklist DealCabby crapware add-on silently installed by FVD Suite installer → Blocklist DealCabby add-on silently installed by FVD Suite installer
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Updated•12 years ago
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Assignee: nobody → jorge
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Comment 1•12 years ago
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Blocked: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i222
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Who do I need to speak with about removing this false positive? We do not 'silently' install our product anywhere so this is an error.
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Comment 3•12 years ago
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Hello David, DealCabby is being silently installed at least with the FVD Suite Installer, as discovered by Kris. This is not necessarily something the add-on is doing, but maybe is done by the installer it is bundled with. Is this bundling something you authorized?
Hello Jorge, Thank you for looking into this. No, we would never authorize this. I did some googling for FVD Suite and found - www.flashvideodownloader.org/fvd-suite/ which is operated by Somoto. I installed FVD Suite but was unable to get DealCabby. Is this the product you are referring to? I contacted Somoto and have asked them to cease immediately. David
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Comment 5•12 years ago
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The installer is at http://www.fvdsuite.com/. I just ran it again to confirm that it does still silently install DealCabby: https://people.mozilla.com/~kmaglione/images/88d1007459837f7c.png
Hey Kris, Thank you for providing the link to the download. While installing http://www.fvdsuite.com , i was showed an offer screen for Deal Cabby. We didn't approve the advertiser to run this offer screen but this isn't silently installed as the user has the chance to accept or decline the offer. Is there anything we can do to get this removed? Thank you for everything David
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Comment 7•12 years ago
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Whether the installer offers users a chance to opt-out of the install or not, we do not allow such installers to bypass the about:newaddon page that is shown the first startup after the add-on is installed. Users need to opt-in either via that page or via the standard add-on installation dialog. We'll remove the block when we have confirmation that the installer does one of the two.
Kris, thank you. I will work with our developers to get this sorted out. Thanks for providing the information so we can get this handled.
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: addons.mozilla.org → Toolkit
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