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Windows Defender Flagging Firefox

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Around a week or two ago, Windows Defender has begun flagging files within Firefox as trojan's. It happens only when I use the browser, sometimes immediately, sometimes after a few minutes. I tried disabling my extensions and reinstalling, but the pop ups continue.

Is it safe to assume this is a problem with Windows Defender? Image of the detections attached.

Around a week or two ago, Windows Defender has begun flagging files within Firefox as trojan's. It happens only when I use the browser, sometimes immediately, sometimes after a few minutes. I tried disabling my extensions and reinstalling, but the pop ups continue. Is it safe to assume this is a problem with Windows Defender? Image of the detections attached.
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cor-el
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We regularly see problems with Windows Defender reported about files in the Firefox disk cache (cache2 folder), those are likely false positives as this folder is only used to store

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I followed the steps in the article to clear the cache but the notifications continue to pop up. If those files are being flagged, does that mean there is a malicious file in Firefox somewhere or I went somewhere unsafe? If they’re false positives that’s fine, I just want to be sure before I decide on whether or not I should whitelist this folder.

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