273086 - about viruses and security

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[no.1]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

As long as I use FireFox, my computer will be infected.

I intalled fixfox 1.0, and then I visited some web pages
then I scanned my computer for cleaning viruses
The anti-virus program found a virus in the "profiles" folder
And then I deleted the "profiles" folder
I logged on the Internet again and visited some pages
I scanned the "profiles" folder and found the virus again!

FireFox is a good web browser, but it's not safe enough yet.
I hope you could fix it as soon as possible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Probably the disk cache. Just because we save something to the disk cache which
might include a virus doesn't mean it's an insecure browser.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Indeed.  Marking invalid.  Virus programs generally ignore the browser caches of
browsers they know about; sounds like this one has simply not been updated to
know about Firefox.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

They don't ignore the cache because they try to catch some IE security holes
with the cache scanning.

But this is no security hole and it's also not an unsecure Firefox, it's only a
user who doesn't know what that means or why this happens and why his Computer
isn't infected...


verified invalid