282655 - virus werse on firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jbuck50]

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

 download.small trojen and few worms and its veriants have gotten threw firefox,
is this normal or will this be fixed in the future

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.surf a page with viruses
2.virus scanner stops virus
3.the virus gets on the computer anyway

Actual Results:  
 i couldnt clean the worm or trojen off using avast, avg or norton antivirus and
      the virus crashes mc afee

Expected Results:  
not excute the virus like it does on (internet explorer}

firefox not responding 4 versions of downloader.small and the beagly and mugly
worms and if i dont clean it off 1 version of the mydoom worm is downloaded and
pulls 7 unknown trojens over

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 282654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 282654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Example URL ?


There is no kown case that your system can be infected by firefox.
Please reopen if you have reproduceable steps.

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.surf a page with viruses
> 2.virus scanner stops virus
> 3.the virus gets on the computer anyway

What do you mean with step 3? In your cache directory or as a download? If your
AV finds something in the disk cache - that is not unusual. If you download
something by user interaction, that is ok too.