837838 - Block MixiDJ add-on.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Description

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

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}

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

This is a Conduit add-on.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

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: [e-mail]
 LyricsTube: [e-mail]
 mixi.dj: [e-mail]
 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!

Comment 3

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

This is up to 26K users.

Comment 4

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Please file separate bugs for Iminent Minibar and LyricsTube, so we can handle separately.

Comment 5

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

I've contacted the developers through their website. Let's give them some time to react.

Comment 6

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Blocked: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i354