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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: PjInOhio on September 20, 2018, 05:10:54 PM

Title: Allowed Avast Remove 'Bad' FireFox (61.0.2) AddOn - Avast Destroyed my Session!
Post by: PjInOhio on September 20, 2018, 05:10:54 PM

I allowed Avast to remove  a 'Bad' FireFox (61.0.2) AddOn (NetFlix) and after doing so, Avast Destroyed my browser Session! Only one of my browser windows came back.  ALL OTHERS were GONE!  There were a bunch of new windows opened and duplicates of one window that did come back. 

Is this a widespread problem allowing Avast to remove a FireFox AddOn or somehow Avast doesn't account for certain browser Sessions or what?   Can I recover my last 'Big', multi-window session, including my Main browser window that had over 700 Tabs?


 ~ Pj

Title: Re: Allowed Avast Remove 'Bad' FireFox (61.0.2) AddOn - Avast Destroyed my Session!
Post by: schmidthouse on September 20, 2018, 05:40:50 PM

There is more info here:https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=221940.0 (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=221940.0)  :)

Title: Re: Allowed Avast Remove 'Bad' FireFox (61.0.2) AddOn - Avast Destroyed my Session!
Post by: PjInOhio on September 21, 2018, 02:14:52 PM

Thanks.

I closed FireFox and restarted it.  I got all my 8 browser windows back and closed some excess windows Avast had left.  I hope Avast has or will fix this.

Title: Re: Allowed Avast Remove 'Bad' FireFox (61.0.2) AddOn - Avast Destroyed my Session!
Post by: schmidthouse on September 21, 2018, 06:03:14 PM

You're welcome

Title: Re: Allowed Avast Remove 'Bad' FireFox (61.0.2) AddOn - Avast Destroyed my Session!
Post by: rocksteady on September 21, 2018, 06:20:56 PM

I had something similar myself. Avast flagged Trusteer Endpoint Protection Firefox AddOn as bad. I just set flag to skip removal. False positive for sure, but got round it.