Closed Bug 837838 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Block MixiDJ add-on.

Categories

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED
2013-05-23

People

(Reporter: kmag, Assigned: jorgev)

References

Details

This only has ~2K users, so it's probably not even worth filing, but meh. Comes as a tag-along install with Yontoo from c|net. Bypasses about:newaddon, changes homepage and search settings. Does not restore settings when disabled. ID: {c0c2693d-2ee8-47b4-9df7-b67a0ee31988}
This is a Conduit add-on.
Blocks: Conduit
Ok, so I downloaded this from mixi.dj, and it does the following nasties (this caught my eye after I found it on my in-law's laptop). 1. Closes Firefox without warning when being installed. 2. Installs MixiDJ and Yahoo Toolbar bedefault, and changes and "maintains" yahoo as your default search and home page (this is an opt-out option in the installer) 3. Installer is bundled with a ton of crap (Games player, Smiley toolbar, etc.) 4. None of the various Add-ons use the about:newaddon page (reason enough to block all of them) 5.The Add-ons installed by default are: Iminent Minibar: webbooster@iminent.com LyricsTube: lrcsTube@hansanddeta.com mixi.dj: support@mixidj.com Yahoo Toolbar: {635abd67-4fe9-1b23-4f01-e679fa7484c1} 6. All Add-ons except for Yahoo Toolbar are globally installed, so can only be disabled. 7. All settings are left as Yahoo when you do remove the add-ons. Burn them with fire!
This is up to 26K users.
Please file separate bugs for Iminent Minibar and LyricsTube, so we can handle separately.
I've contacted the developers through their website. Let's give them some time to react.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Assignee: nobody → jorge
Target Milestone: --- → 2013-05-23
Blocks: 963819
Product: addons.mozilla.org → Toolkit
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