293398 - Aurora pop-ups

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[aaton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

This pop-up does'nt seem to have an URL. It also appears under the name "Buddy."
I've been getting pop-ups from this source all day. I did clean out my Privacy
info, especially cookies.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
Pop-up blocker should be detecting these ads for a variety of products.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Aurora is adware running external to the browser. It probably hitched a ride on
something else you installed. Google "remove Aurora popup" for help getting rid
of it.

If it installed through a flaw in Firefox of course we'd want to know and fix
it, but as this bug doesn't make that assertion nor provide details there's
nothing here we can "fix".