[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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