280343 - download exploit voniribility + excuse my spelling on this

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129923

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jay Buck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

On standard webpage that has virus, download manager pops up and the virus gets
on the computer before the user accepts the file to be downloaded.

This allows viruses to still get on the system even if the user wants to choose
no or cancel the download even before it has started downloading a specfic file.

This can be fixed by blocking the anymous file intel the user chooses what he or
she wanted to download that file or pop up virus.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Cant be fixed by firewall or Virus Scanner, because part of the file is
already on the system.
2.If a file promps you to download and you didnt choose to download anything or
on a standard webpage, close that download pop up immeditly.
3.Dont let firefox download, inless the user wanted that file, because it may be
a virus.

Actual Results:  
Nuthing , the virus spread even when i had three virus scanners, i havent found
way to fix this, myself. I cleaned virus off and tried that virus infected page
agin and got same virus back. A few worms and trojens!

Expected Results:  
Waited for me to accept or deny the download, because i didnt ask to download it.

This was the reason for people wanting to use firefox, they feel its more sucere
, and more of what the user wants.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no exploit and no security problem and please search the next time before you
file a bug, thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129923 ***