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Avira Alert: trojan has found in mozilla profiles folder after updating 57.0
I am confused. Can Avira be right?
Trojan has found in the following folder: C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tab9fsey.default-1494393169451\cache2\entries and the file is named 7F1C77071EA38F1DAD4F951B7994D8C66916FF94
System: Win 8.1 64bit
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Réiteach roghnaithe
Are you still using this profile?
It was created via a refresh in May 10, 2017 (1494393169451).
You can find links to each registerd profile folder on the about:profiles page.
You can clear this folder yourself if you are worried about this alert, but as written above, files in the disk cache normally can't do much harm.
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The wise guy that has approved this automatic update did not think a little on all the security add-ons that will be disabled. so i would not be surprised if thousands of computers got infected today.
I suspect that Avira is correct - but it is inconsequential where it is sitting.
That "trojan" is in the cache - it ain't gonna hurt you unless you go poking around in the cache.
If it bothers you just being there, just clear the cache.
Thanks for your help!
@the-edmeister: Nope, does not work. Still there.
Any other ideas?
Réiteach Roghnaithe
Are you still using this profile?
It was created via a refresh in May 10, 2017 (1494393169451).
You can find links to each registerd profile folder on the about:profiles page.
You can clear this folder yourself if you are worried about this alert, but as written above, files in the disk cache normally can't do much harm.
@ core-el: Thank you very much! This time clearing the folder was successful!
I do not understand what it means whether I still using the profile. I am not quite good at these things. Sorry!