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Offline Lisandro

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False positive round? Firefox related?
« on: January 14, 2011, 05:19:53 PM »
Quick scan caught a malware in the firefox process loaded in memory.
False positive?
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2011, 05:27:40 PM »
nothing here ... but I'm running Firefox 4. So that's not relevant as you're probably on 3.6.
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2011, 05:39:25 PM »
No issue her with firefox 3.6.13.
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2011, 06:08:45 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on January 14, 2011, 05:39:25 PM
No issue here with firefox 3.6.13.

Ditto.
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2011, 06:19:36 PM »
Tech,

Check if you have any site opened which is having such an exploit. If avast detected firefox, there would be loads of them trying to access the forum to show the fingers at us.
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2011, 10:24:44 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on January 14, 2011, 05:39:25 PM
No issue her with firefox 3.6.13.

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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2011, 11:34:42 PM »
Maybe something in tifs? Try dumping caches, etc., and scan again.
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2011, 05:21:41 AM »
Quote from: Logos on January 14, 2011, 05:27:40 PM
nothing here ... but I'm running Firefox 4. So that's not relevant as you're probably on 3.6.
                                                                                    Also running Firefox 4 here...no problems at all.
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Re: False positive round? Firefox related?
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2011, 05:27:25 PM »
He just have opened dangerous URL in firefox because no problem at my side too.
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