Steve wrote: > On a Windows machine, I got the BadTrans virus in the mail. As soon as > I clicked on the guilty mail with just a Subject heading of Re:, a save > dialogue box appeared automatically asking me what I wanted to save the > file as. My virus protection program immediately balked at accessing > the file. > > I'm curious though. What's the process for getting the save item box to > appear automatically? Usually, I have to initiate an action before > using the attachment. I looked at the same email via Linux, and it did > the same thing saying that just by viewing it I have chosen to download > the file from my IMAP server and then asked for confirmation. > > I thought Mozilla was conservative with respect to automatic actions > being prompted by the sender (in this case, choosing to start the > saving process). It does still ask for a confirmation, but I'm > surprised that the save dialogue box came up on its own. The attachment > was just a Base64 encoded attachment designed to look like an MP3 file.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109249
