294825 - Microsoft Anti-Spyware shows a "Browser Hijack spyware" which disable Goggle.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Terrell Scott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Last night I ran the Microsoft beta release of "Anti Spyware".  It showed a
single item of "Browser Hijack"  I deleted this item right away.  This morning
when logging on to Firefox, the default page to Firefox worked just find.  What
did not work was any attempt at a Google.com search -- no connection at all!!  I
re-installed Firefox release 1.0.4 and PRESTO, now the Google search engine
works just fine. Was the problem due to the MS Anti-spyware search??  If
Microsoft - those wonderful folks -- are responsible for disabling Google, this
is outrageous!!  I can't believe that any component of Mozilla/Firefox would be
recognized as a Browser Hijack Attempt.  I love Firefox for better security,
better features, and only use Internet Explorer when FORCED to due so.  Please
advise if anyone else has seen this.  Thank You,  Terrell Scott

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run beta release of Microsoft Anti Spyware on Firefox release 1.0.4
2.Find "Browser Hijack Attempt" amd delete it.
3.Now run Firefox and see if Google search engine works.  Re-install a clean
copy of Firefox 1.0.4 and NOW Google search engine is A-OK.


Actual Results:  
I have not tested steps to reproduce.

Expected Results:  
Not Tested.

Google search from Mozilla/Firefox start page -- which is my default page.

Comment 1

[Tristor]

Reporter:

If a bug is present that is causing this behavior, the bug is in Microsoft/Giant
Anti-Spyware, and not within Firefox.  It appears from your report that MS
AntiSpyware (which is a Beta, btw) is giving false positives on browser hijacks
for browsers other than IE and removing things it shouldn't be.  Bugzilla isn't
a forum for asking questions about it though, so if you are wanting somebody to
confirm this behavior to be sure that it is indeed the MS AntiSpyware that is
breaking it, feel free to post to mozillazine forums or something.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

BTW: I don't think that this was casued by teh MS Antispyware unless someone
else got the problem and this is the first report. But this is of course not the
correct place to discuss something like that.

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