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when try to open the site, McAfee blocks it as malicious site.have window 10 on dell laptop cannot open

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mthapar
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I haven been using Mozilla Firefox for more then ten years. I have McAfee also for several years with Window 7. Now I bought new Dell's XPS with windows 10 and have McAfee. I downloaded Firefox and it for a month. for the last few days it will not allow me to open the Firefox and blocks the site as malicious site. Some one suggested me to block McAfee. I am afraid then it may not intercept true malicious site. I had a previous bad experience with hacking of my system before. I need the answer what should i do. Thank you

I haven been using Mozilla Firefox for more then ten years. I have McAfee also for several years with Window 7. Now I bought new Dell's XPS with windows 10 and have McAfee. I downloaded Firefox and it for a month. for the last few days it will not allow me to open the Firefox and blocks the site as malicious site. Some one suggested me to block McAfee. I am afraid then it may not intercept true malicious site. I had a previous bad experience with hacking of my system before. I need the answer what should i do. Thank you

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FredMcD
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Please provide a public link (no password) that we can check out. No Personal Information Please !

McCoy
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mthapar said

Some one suggested me to block McAfee.

Hello mthapar,

I will go even further than that and suggest that you remove it.

Just can rely on Windows built-in Defender and maybe let malwarebytes run a scan once a month.

Also see :

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/ex-mozilla-firefox-developer-says-anti-virus-software-does-more-harm-than-good-359798.html

And : https://www.howtogeek.com/239950/dont-use-your-antivirus-browser-extensions-they-can-actually-make-you-less-safe/