Closed Bug 471940 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

viral site hijacks firefox with unkillable pop-ups

Categories

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59314

People

(Reporter: per, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5 If I browse to http://scan4new.com/22/?uid=114 I get a fake Windows desktop which pretends to be scanning my C drive and recommends downloaing some malware. It keeps popping up pop-ups. It is impossible to kill all the pop-ups. The only way to kill it is to force-kill firefox. Making this worse is that when the pop-up is active I cannot switch to another tab - the entire UI is unresponsive until all the pop-ups are closed - which is impossible. It seems a fundamental bug if a pop-up windows can disable the entire Firefox UI - no menus work, clicking in a tab doesn't work, closing the firefow window doesn't work. This is unacceptable. Another suggestion: Perhaps the "Stop loading this page" button could be dual-purposed to stop an JavaScript running in the current tab/window? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
fwiw, I could close that tab with Ctrl-W while hitting Enter to close the alerts.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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