Closed Bug 851798 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Block malicious "Torrent Handler" extension

Categories

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Blocklist Policy Requests
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: monzta-kw, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931



Actual results:

Adblock Plus has an issue reporting feature to report unblocked ads or issues to the filterlist maintainers like me. Here is an issue report of a user who has "Torrent Handler" (extension ID: "TorrentHandler@TorrentHandler.com") instealled: 

https://reports.adblockplus.org/b42ef6ca-1d8e-bd45-bb8e-45bb5d9fb898#tab=extensions 

It seems it injects these ad links in webpages. 

A user also reported that in the Adblock Plus forum and confirmed that the links were gone after removing that extension: 

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13170
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I don't see any evidence of malicious behavior in this instance. If others want to investigate, feel free to reopen if you discover anything.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: addons.mozilla.org → Toolkit
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