289966 - firefox spawns instance of IE, installs spyware

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Cutler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Hypermouse/1.0.2 (All your Firefox/1.0.2 are belong to Firesomething)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

On visiting the page at http://www.seriall.com/w/0.html, firefox spawned
Internet Explorer in two windows, which automatically installed spyware and data
miners. Other installers were blocked through firefox directly.

Also: I use ieview 0.86 extension. Possible method for site to run IE

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to page
Actual Results:  
IE spawned, software installed without user interaction.

Expected Results:  
Not allow website to run or call Internet Explorer

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Works for me, but I don't have ieview installed.

Is it the same issue reported here (which is not really a Firefox problem) :
<http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/2005/mar13.php> ?

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Do you have Java installed and enabled? What version? You can answer both
questions by typing about:plugins in the location bar.

Avoid warez sites. If anyone finds browser exploits they're among the first to
use them, they're obviously not worried about being prosecuted for criminal
activity given their content.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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