492160 - mozilla.fr : domain name hijacking + distributes modified version of Firefox with possible malware

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketing :: Trademark Violations, task)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

http://www.mozilla.fr/

They distribute Firefox 3.0.4 with a modified installer that installs a suplementary search plugin (and possible more) called http://www.xeoo.com/

They also distribute a set of popular add-ons hosted on their own site, those might be modified as well.

They have affiliation banners to mozilla.fr using getfirefox banners and present them as a way to link to Mozilla and spread Firefox.

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

google shows lots of sites confused and thinking this is the real Mozilla site:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Afr%3Aunofficial&hs=99b&q=link%3Amozilla.fr&btnG=Rechercher&lr=lang_fr

Comment 2

[Catherine C. Brady]

Pascal, Thank you for letting us know about this site.  We've been working with local counsel on this site and others owned by the same person.

Since this site has been entered in our enforcement data base, I'm marking this bug closed.