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I recently found that while accessing the url below which force you to a malicious .zip file ...

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AnonymousUser
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Issue

I have another kind of problem with Firefox

Description

I recently found that while accessing the url below which force you to a malicious .zip file hxxp://www.duboselaw.com/BP/Update_on_Gulf_of_Mexico_Oil_Spill_Response.zip Using firefox browser the AV software was not able to detect the virus but the sam on the IE AV was able to detect the virus. Is this a bug.


This happened

Every time Firefox opened

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

== Issue == I have another kind of problem with Firefox == Description == I recently found that while accessing the url below which force you to a malicious .zip file hxxp://www.duboselaw.com/BP/Update_on_Gulf_of_Mexico_Oil_Spill_Response.zip Using firefox browser the AV software was not able to detect the virus but the sam on the IE AV was able to detect the virus. Is this a bug. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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Morbus
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Hello Lekshmanan.

Don't open files that contain malicious content. That link is not a webpage, but a file, as you can notice by the extension in the URL.

I am not sure how accurate your report is about the virus detection. By default, all downloads are scanned by the installed antivirus (if any) before they are stored/opened.