Closed Bug 286204 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Bad Bookmark

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Version:
1.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: oona, Assigned: vladimir+bm)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

http://www.findmyvideos.com/
is listed in the bookmarks after installation (it didn't come from my I.E.
favs).  When clicked, it redirects to a spammer's spyware page, telling the user
they have spyware.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  click on the link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
redirected to bogus site

Expected Results:  
to find the correct site

Delete the link? ;-)
Not a big deal.  Just thought you should know for future release installations.
This link is not included in the official en-US Firefox 1.0.x release.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/search?string=findmyvideos

Perhaps you added it accidentially or through an extension or an old profile?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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