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    Trojan In Firefox Source Normal?

    I've just been unpacking Firefox's source code with 7-zip and Kaspersky informed me of several trojans throughout the process which it quarantined. It was the .tar.bz2 one from here ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or.../3.5.2/source/ is this normal? I think the files, .xml IIRC, were under a folder called crashtests so they could have been example code or something...
    If it's normal that's fine, just wanted to be sure.

    A little more info - the detected files included the following:
    firefox-3.5.2-source.tar//mozilla-1.9.1/content/xslt/crashtests/485217.xml
    firefox-3.5.2-source.tar//mozilla-1.9.1/content/xslt/crashtests/485217.xsl

    Kaspersky lists the above as "Exploit.HTML.Agent.bw" but I didn't let the scan of the tar complete that time and I think I remember seeing trojan earlier.

    OK I checked through the logs and found the trojan: Detected: Trojan.JS.WindowBomb.o mozilla-1.9.1\tools\performance\startup\open10Windows.html
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    Re: Trojan In Firefox Source Normal?

    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    I've just been unpacking Firefox's source code with 7-zip and Kaspersky informed me of several trojans throughout the process which it quarantined. It was the .tar.bz2 one from here ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or.../3.5.2/source/ is this normal? I think the files, .xml IIRC, were under a folder called crashtests so they could have been example code or something...
    If it's normal that's fine, just wanted to be sure.

    A little more info - the detected files included the following:
    firefox-3.5.2-source.tar//mozilla-1.9.1/content/xslt/crashtests/485217.xml
    firefox-3.5.2-source.tar//mozilla-1.9.1/content/xslt/crashtests/485217.xsl

    Kaspersky lists the above as "Exploit.HTML.Agent.bw" but I didn't let the scan of the tar complete that time and I think I remember seeing trojan earlier.

    OK I checked through the logs and found the trojan: Detected: Trojan.JS.WindowBomb.o mozilla-1.9.1\tools\performance\startup\open10Windows.html
    It detects a file which opens 10 windows (used for performance testing) as a javascript window-opening attack

    Which makes sense, but is also inappropriate in the context

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    Re: Trojan In Firefox Source Normal?

    I think on an install of Firefox v1.5, when I scan the partition, Avira Free complains of finding something similar too. I've not quarantined it but that was because I thought it might be required by the program as it is in the program directory but who knows?

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    Re: Trojan In Firefox Source Normal?

    They're unit tests as part of the Firefox build process. Smack your AV on the nose.
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    Re: Trojan In Firefox Source Normal?

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    They're unit tests as part of the Firefox build process. Smack your AV on the nose.

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    Re: Trojan In Firefox Source Normal?

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