282723 - spam automatically opened new browser window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Kevin Chen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104

I recently received a piece of spam, and upon opening it in Mozilla Mail, it
automatically opened a new browser window to display some kind of advertisement.

In my preferences, I have Javascript turned off for Mail & Newsgroup, and also
have Block unrequested popup windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on e-mail in Mozilla mail.

Actual Results:  
A browser window with the web page opens.


Expected Results:  
Not opened the browser window.

Comment 1

[Kevin Chen]

Attachment: spam that opens browser window

Comment 2

[Kevin Chen]

Actually... this is possibly related to bug 28327, since I notice that there
seems to be an embedded flash file, which might be opening the new browser
window.  And indeed, going directly to http://my.netian.com/~killjames/woo.swf,
the URL mentioned in the e-mail, I get taken to the web page that I saw pop up.

Comment 3

[Kevin Chen]

On third thought, while fixing bug 28327 would have prevented the pop-up from
happening in this case, because the flash file was remote, it would not have
prevented the pop-up if the flash file had been attached to the e-mail.  Or
maybe bug 28327 already addresses that -- I need to go back and read it.

Comment 4

[Kevin Chen]

After some more searching, I found the "Enable plugins for mail/news" option,
which I have consistently somehow missed in the preferences for a long time. 
Marking as invalid.