Closed Bug 1031115 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Blocklist Speedial add-ons

Categories

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
2014-09

People

(Reporter: kmag, Assigned: jorgev)

Details

(Whiteboard: [qa-])

I haven't been able to find out where this comes from, but from the few reports I've been able to find, on SUMO and elsewhere, people have been infected by it unknowingly, and it changes the new tab page to include a search box using the speedial.com Yahoo affiliate search engine. It's also incredibly new and yet has millions of users, which is highly suspicious. ID: {fa95f577-07cb-4470-ac90-e843f5f83c52} 2.5M users
Also ffxtlbr@speedial.com Note that these add-ons have an extremely high correlation with searches moving to a non-default search engine in the day after install.
Is this the one? http://www.getspeedial.com/
Flags: needinfo?(kmaglione+bmo)
It seems to be, yes. This installer hijacks the default search engine and homepage before install, but does not bypass about:newaddon, but stats suggest that that's not the usual method of install.
Flags: needinfo?(kmaglione+bmo)
Blocked: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i696
Assignee: nobody → jorge
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Whiteboard: [qa-]
Target Milestone: --- → 2014-09
Product: addons.mozilla.org → Toolkit
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