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How to fix/investigate Windows Defender detecting malware in the VSS snapshots for Firefox cached files?
Update: Seems solved as of March 4.
I was able to remove the bypass (path exclusion in Defender) and perform backups without malware detection, even after re-accessing the site linked in the original ...
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How to remove ad script malware injection on Firefox
I'm using linux mint tara. When I browse through firefox, occasionally an encrypted script is getting injected into the page that I'm browsing. When clicked anywhere on the page opens a popup ad. How ...
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What is FF Info Guarded 4.6.5?
On a Kubuntu 16.04.3 LTS that I administrate from time to time I found the Firefox extension "FF Info Guarded 4.6.5". Firefox version is 57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
On about:support is it listed ...
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"YouTube High Definition" add-on self-installed without my permission, malware?
I came back from a brief trip to the store and there was a new tab open in my Firefox browser (This site: http://barisderin.com/), announcing that the "YouTube High Definition" had been "installed". I ...
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Something is changing my search results in all browsers
For a few days now, I experience the following symptoms:
Whenever I type a search term in the omnibox, some of the times I am being redirected to a search engine named "secure-surf.net", instead of ...
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Firefox shows 'Your Connection is not secure' while connecting to google.com
I reinstalled firefox and Kaspersky 17,and now I am geeting this message when trying to connect to google.com :
Sign of hidden malware?
My pc was infected and I reinstalled win 10 x64
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wonderlandads redirectes only on stackexchange sites on Ubuntu
I use Google Chrome, Chromium and Firefox for browsing on Ubuntu 14.04 and Chromium is my default browser.
Today when I started Chromium for searching a site from the Stack Exchange network I was ...
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Changed browser settings without permission
Something very weird just happened to me. I opened up my computer and went to get on the Firefox (my primary browser) and it asked me to enable all my extensions again. After I did that, it had my ...
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Is there a minimal browser specifically designed to prevent drive-by malware?
After my father's PC (with Avast and Firefox configured to auto-update in the background) got infected, most probably via a drive-by download, by a ransomware, I was wondering how I could prevent that ...
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Malware: how to remove annoying extra argument when Firefox & Chrome processes start
I am in the midst of a malware cleanup, as a result of making the rookie mistake of trying out an .exe file from an unreliable source. Anyway, the malware seemingly turned out to be some sort of ...
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A malware in Mozilla, An URL opens automatically? [duplicate]
Some times when I open a site in Mozilla, a URL that starts with vadabzauefrpph4xraz8ewblhsbsbxkfq7sx8d9me4nuemgnx2yt5cnyfzzlxek.com will replace with the site's URL, What should I do to solve this ...
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Can't get rid of browser searchengine hijack
I have a very sticky search engine (searchinterneat-a.akamaihd.net) hijack in my Firefox browser. My BF already:
removed the program,
removed all traces in the registry,
removed addons,
restored ...
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Firefox strange connection established, what is this?
I have accidentally found inside Firefox process properties (using Process Explorer) a weird connection in tcp/ip tab:
bandicam.com:some_ports
it points at localhost 127.0.0.1:some_ports
bandicam ...
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Serious Malware issue about "Browser Link Redirection" and "Malicious Links on Site"
So, for some time, I have been noticing the constant "redirections" to seemigly malicious/Adware sites.
For example, while Googling something, I pick a result from the Search page and when opening in ...
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Unidentifiable malware
For the past few weeks whenever I open any web browser the url bar says https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/amazo-irland/json2/urls/sRCH2.html then redirects me to either search.ask.com or alarabeyes....
