** Description changed: When downloading .chm/.epub/.pdf files from a given site, FF 50.1.0 reports that there are malwares in them. - This is certainly wrong (clamscan reports no problem on the files...) and seems to be *only* based on *wrong suppositions* on the origin URL... + This is *certainly* wrong (no antivirus detects them as problematic(*)) and seems to be *only* based on *wrong suppositions* on the origin URL... Such a blocking of downloaded files is erroneous. Indeed, downloading from supposedly "illegal" sites (is a site that proposes links to supposedly illegal stuff illegal in itself? Whoi are you to decide it is illegal?) does not means you get "illegal" files (how do you know I don't own the rights to get the file), nor that the (supposedly "illegal") files are *always* infected by malware... Also, malware target mostly (specific versions of) Windows OS/App, which I do not use, so I REALLY DON'T CARE of what FF assumes of the risks I'm taking. Please, do not make any stupid assumptions (like that I'm a stupid Windows user) and let me do what *I* want on *my* machines!!! + + (*) Local clamscan reports no problem on the files... Nor virustotal: + https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ed10c84a0fd3e032ef043ec173bc3564e57778b07a509bf38aeea25f119cb9d1/analysis/ + https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4dc05541e4599d82968798f0e1474b844b968eb06b025f97a9bf1671d69f9711/analysis/ + https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/40852cc85153c065db5c4025a7d19983d26dbf81a6ecbbfa1d40358d2f6546b5/analysis/
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1654553 Title: Firefox 50.1.0 report malware on downloaded epub files! Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When downloading .chm/.epub/.pdf files from a given site, FF 50.1.0 reports that there are malwares in them. This is *certainly* wrong (no antivirus detects them as problematic(*)) and seems to be *only* based on *wrong suppositions* on the origin URL... Such a blocking of downloaded files is erroneous. Indeed, downloading from supposedly "illegal" sites (is a site that proposes links to supposedly illegal stuff illegal in itself? Whoi are you to decide it is illegal?) does not means you get "illegal" files (how do you know I don't own the rights to get the file), nor that the (supposedly "illegal") files are *always* infected by malware... Also, malware target mostly (specific versions of) Windows OS/App, which I do not use, so I REALLY DON'T CARE of what FF assumes of the risks I'm taking. Please, do not make any stupid assumptions (like that I'm a stupid Windows user) and let me do what *I* want on *my* machines!!! (*) Local clamscan reports no problem on the files... Nor virustotal: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ed10c84a0fd3e032ef043ec173bc3564e57778b07a509bf38aeea25f119cb9d1/analysis/ https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4dc05541e4599d82968798f0e1474b844b968eb06b025f97a9bf1671d69f9711/analysis/ https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/40852cc85153c065db5c4025a7d19983d26dbf81a6ecbbfa1d40358d2f6546b5/analysis/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1654553/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
