305062 - Corrupted installer/zip files

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I download a file (normally, NOT save as...) and try to open it (manually, or
with firefox) and I get an error about the file being corrupt.

This has been happening on 90% of the compressed files I download, whether
they're the self-extracting, installer types, .zip, or .rar as well as videos.
It's been happening from multiple sources (nvidia, asus, apple...). The error
message is different depending on the filetype/handler.

I was thinking it could be a problem with my hardware firewall and it's checksum
offloading, but I can download fine with IE and everything else. It happens with
the firewall on and off, as well as with anti-virus on and off.

This MIGHT be a duplicate of 277105, but it's happening with more than just videos.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Left-click on the file to be downloaded
2. Save the file normally
3. Open the file

Actual Results:  
Error messages complaining about corrupt data

Expected Results:  
Have valid data

Comment 1

[John]

Forgot to mention that I'm using Windows XP Pro x64 (dunno if it's relevant).

Comment 2

[Michael (GoodWill)]

This could be a bad proxy, or something on the users computer (virus, trojan, etc).
I do not really see any way to reproduce this since I download all the time and
it has not really happened to me.

Can the rporteer provide more info, maybe start firefox in safemode (both for
firefox) and in safe mode with networking support in XP and see what happens?

Comment 3

[John]

No proxy here, I scan for viri, adware, AND trojans regularly, and keep a
firewall up at all times. I'll try in safemode when I get home from work (shhhh,
don't tell).

Comment 4

[John]

I tested it with ONLY Firefox in safe mode and it works fine.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Firefox v1.0.x is not supported anymore.

(Would have been "Incomplete", now is) R.Invalid

Reopen if you can reproduce with Firefox v2.0.0.14.
(Give details on what could trigger this, which is worked around in safe mode.)