387537 - Malware Phising

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Safe Browsing, defect)

Description

[Tim Mitchell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

I use program called spybot search & destroy to double check my security software (B-safe B-secure. The only problems it reports are those that originated thru Foxfire, nothing thru IE

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Rerun Spybot Search & Destroy
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Expected Results:  
Reports similar results

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Please provide details of what SpyBot reported, and say why you think Firefox (*cough*) is responsible.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Tim, emailed me details from Spybot:

Advertising.com: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, nothing done)
Advertising.com: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, nothing done)
Advertising.com: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, nothing done)
Advertising.com: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, nothing done)
DoubleClick: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, nothing done)
MediaPlex: Tracking cookie (Firefox: default) (Cookie, nothing done)

These are tracking cookies that advertisers use, and it's a personal choice if you  get worked up or not (I don't FWIW). It's nothing to do with phishing or malware, you get these simply by surfing any part of the web with banner ads (ie most of it).