680762 - McAfee Netguard IP Block

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Erick Smith]

Attachment: whois.odt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110811165603

Steps to reproduce:

I was surfing the web and all of a sudden McAfee Netguard blocked 183.60.136.65.


Actual results:

The McAfee Netguard notified me that the IP 183.60.136.65 was blocked.  The attempt was made by Firefox version 6.  Attached is the whois info.


Expected results:

Not exactly sure, but if there is a vulnerability, then McAfee should have blocked the IP.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

And why do you think this is a Firefox bug ?

Comment 2

[Erick Smith]

(In reply to Jo Hermans from comment #1)
> And why do you think this is a Firefox bug ?

I haven't expected firefox.exe to communicate to a web server unless an add-on or ActiveX is programmed to do so.  I don't like unsuspecting China IP's...but I'll note this as a network issue and not a firefox issue.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>I haven't expected firefox.exe to communicate to a web server
...
>I was surfing the web
You surfed around the web and one page included a link to that server.
Firefox didn't do that on it's own.

Comment 4

[Erick Smith]

(In reply to Matthias Versen (Matti) from comment #3)
> >I haven't expected firefox.exe to communicate to a web server
> ...
> >I was surfing the web
> You surfed around the web and one page included a link to that server.
> Firefox didn't do that on it's own.

Exactly bro...nothing from Firefox.  Just someone's link...