[Bug 99759] Malware in Firefox?

Bob Stoll bob at stoll-family.com
Mon Apr 2 07:42:00 UTC 2007


Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 02:15:36PM -0000, Bob Stoll wrote:
>   
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> I started playing with the Feisty beta and was having trouble getting to
>> the internet with firefox (adblock and forecastfox plugins installed).
>> My firewall (Check Point FW-1/VPN-1 Edge device) logs show the traffic
>> is being dropped because it is infected with ISTbar, which is adware.
>>     
>
> Is this kind of proxy server which doesn't let you through?
>   
No.  It's a stateful packet filter that does header checking.  
Specifically, its Check Point's SmartDefense function that is picking 
this up.  I work with this product on a daily basis and it's usually 
pretty good about not sounding a false alarm.

I changed the user agent setting as you suggested which  solved the 
problem.  Apparently SmartDefense was being overly strict on limiting 
that header.  I will open a case with Check Point  to inform them of the 
problem.  There are a lot of Ubuntu desktops that will be upgrading to 
Feisty soon so I'm pretty sure this won't be the last time this comes 
about.

Regards,
Bob...

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Malware in Firefox?
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