Closed Bug 289167 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Virus detected by Norton on installation

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Installer
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: sarosin, Assigned: mscott)

Details

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

Norton antivirus detected virus named W32.beagle.x@mm in file
C:\DOCUME~1\SCOTT\LOCALS~1\TEMP\mapiattach.tmp during installation.


Reproducible: Always
This event caused me to uninstall thunderbird and seriously reconsider ever
installing it again.
no blocker

Which tunderbird version ?
on install of what ?

"mapiattach.tmp" is only created if another software calls the System default
mail handler to send a mail with attachment. This means that this is not the
fault of TB
Severity: blocker → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
AdditionaL note:
Tb1.0.2 is virusfree if you downloaded it from mozilla.org.

Thunderbird v.1.0.2
Event happened on istallation of TB 1.0.2 as dl'd from Mozilla Product site.
Let me also say that the MAPI importer failed with five (5) catastrophic 
errors when TB was run for the first time. It imported only 50% of emails from 
Outlook 2003 (v.11.6359.6408 SP1).

As I run nightly system virus scans and the virus was detected as the importer 
was running, I can only conclude that TB was the culprit.
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