Avast suddenly doesn't like several Firefox add ons

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for me it's Classic Theme Restorer, NoScript and Throbber Restorer. It's bad because I have to reinstall all of them every time I boot

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Just a quick note, I have very little time at the moment, but more later.

On the Firefox "Add-ons Manager" screen, I clicked "View Recent Updates" (from Options icon at top), and discovered that the 6 active addons listed as recently updated are exactly the 6 plugins I lost and reinstalled.  I suspect that the addons listed by others are also very recently updated.  Unfortunately, that may not be the whole story, as 2 disabled addons were lost in the earlier 'purge' and aren't listed, but that may be because I haven't reinstalled them, Sage and FreeHDsport (sic?).  I don't use them currently.  Does anyone know if they were recently updated?

Avast Cleanup has often complained about FreeHDsport, but I've never allowed it to proceed.

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Deleted addon list: (these are not all actually)

Adblock Plus (+ Element Hiding Helper)
Abduction
Add to Search Bar
Classic Theme Restorer
Copy Plain Text 2
DownloadHelper
Download Status Bar
DownThemAll!
Flagfox
Gmail Watcher
Greasemonkey
Mozilla Archive Format
Organize Search Engine
Scroll Up Folder
SearchLoad Options
Text Link
YesScript

Exceptions:
LastPass

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@malone.m

Thank you
Karel

[lukor]

Hi guys,
thanks to all for the information posted. We have been able to identify the problem now. Browser Cleanup is responsible for this issue. A bug in the component calculating hashes of the extension packages cause (only in some rare cases) deletion of the wrong file - the original instead the packed one.

Sorry for that and thanks again for your help obtaining the repro steps for us.

The Browser Cleanup team is now working on a fix, which will be delivered via a VPS update shortly (tomorrow).

Lukas

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@lukor

thumbs up


Karel

[bob3160]

Hi guys,
thanks to all for the information posted. We have been able to identify the problem now. Browser Cleanup is responsible for this issue. A bug in the component calculating hashes of the extension packages cause (only in some rare cases) deletion of the wrong file - the original instead the packed one.

Sorry for that and thanks again for your help obtaining the repro steps for us.

The Browser Cleanup team is now working on a fix, which will be delivered via a VPS update shortly (tomorrow).

Lukas

Is the team also working on the glitch that redirects your homepage to Yahoo and your search provider to Bing

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I may have solved this.
See here https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=160114.msg1152059#msg1152059
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Karel

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Hi guys,
thanks to all for the information posted. We have been able to identify the problem now. Browser Cleanup is responsible for this issue. A bug in the component calculating hashes of the extension packages cause (only in some rare cases) deletion of the wrong file - the original instead the packed one.

Sorry for that and thanks again for your help obtaining the repro steps for us.

The Browser Cleanup team is now working on a fix, which will be delivered via a VPS update shortly (tomorrow).

Lukas

So Browser Cleanup deletes addons automatically? I though it was only suppose to check and warn.

[lukor]

... I though it was only suppose to check and warn.

Exactly. This is how it is supposed to work.

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Oh, well that's quite a bug.

Thanks for the clarification.

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The Browser Cleanup team is now working on a fix, which will be delivered via a VPS update shortly (tomorrow).

Lukas

Thx!

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I was wondering why my addons were disappearing! I suppose I will wait for the update tomorrow. If this isn't resolved, I'm going to have to seek a different antivirus solution. =C

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... which will be delivered via a VPS update shortly ...

I've searched and found numerous mentions of 'VPS', but never a definition.  I also cannot find a 3 word phrase beginning with V, P, and S.  What exactly is a VPS?  (Sorry for being a little off-topic, and new around here.)

[Rednose]

... which will be delivered via a VPS update shortly ...

I've searched and found numerous mentions of 'VPS', but never a definition.  I also cannot find a 3 word phrase beginning with V, P, and S.  What exactly is a VPS?  (Sorry for being a little off-topic, and new around here.)

I think "VPS" stands for "Virus Protection Software", but I am not sure ...

Greetz, Red.