Closed
Bug 488283
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Adware.Navipromo.AO rootkit causes Firefox to hang and stop loading pages
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: cww, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: common-issue+)
Extremely common on Mozilla Italian forums, there's a virus going around that is installing with various software packages and causing Firefox to hang or stop loading pages. Closing Firefox does not kill the process and users get a "Firefox is already running but not responding" message when they try to start again. This only affects Firefox, Chrome is unaffected as is Explorer.
After extensive and detailed detective work: http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000183-en--Adware.Navipromo.AO.html has been identified as the cause.
More information:
https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=322151&forumId=3
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Comment 1•15 years ago
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The support link appears dead. In any case, I don't see how Mozilla can take any action on this bug; shockingly, malware causes various types of bad behavior. Marking as "RESOLVED INVALID".
If the malware installed some kind of Firefox extension, Firefox could try to blocklist it, but that obviously doesn't stop anything actively malicious.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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