Closed Bug 1441163 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Unpack downloaded archives to perform safe browsing checks

Categories

(Toolkit :: Safe Browsing, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Safe Browsing
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1260856
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox60 --- affected

People

(Reporter: Alex_Gaynor, Unassigned)

Details

One thing Chrome's safe browsing implementation does, that we do not, is that when an archive (RAR, ZIP) is downloaded, Chrome unpacks it and performs a safe browsing malicious executable check for each of the files in the archive.

We should consider doing something similar. (My understanding is that we currently don't, if that's wrong, sorry for the noise!)
I don't know that Chrome looks inside .rar files, but they do look inside .zip (and .dmg on Mac).

It's definitely on my list of things to tackle once we have a Safe Browsing team again.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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