my virus program is reporting some virus on Firefox
my virus program is reporting some virus on Firefox user\dj\appdata\local\mozilla\firefox\profi\1543AD01 this is one of five reported virus
html/iframe.B.Gen virus
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Hi,
It could be an add-on. Please note that add-ons installed outside of AMO may not be always safe. You can try creating a new profile and copy important personal data like the bookmarks (places.sqlite), passwords (key3.db + signons.sqlite) to the new profile and delete the old profile. Firefox stores the personal data separate from its internal files.
ok i will up some pic so can see the problem thanks i have an option to delete or ignore the error but it keeps pop in up same error virus.
i rimmember having some what the same problem but when i delete it firefox stop working
It looks like another application could be installing extras into a newly created profile (it could be a genuine extension/plugin from the AppData\Local\Mozilla Extensions or plugins or in Program Files\Mozilla Firefox). You can also try to do a thorough scan of the system. You can also try to submit this object to ESET because if its a false alarm you may know it within one or two days when ESET is updated and the alarm goes away.
Ilungisiwe
user\dj\appdata\local\mozilla\firefox\profi\this is the only one i can see yozxgd16.default
i did a full scan and for some reason that file dos not show up so i think its an active html but i cant find it
Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website
before i do any of this i like to say THANK you very much Awesome
Vivek.Wilfred & Swarnava
Ilungisiwe
Swarnava i have tried all of them none work
1 can i copy my profile from my desktop to the profile on my laptop.
2 or install Firefox 10.2 then copy that profile to the profile on my laptop.
i have look around and it seems that its in a cache file in my profile.
Ilungisiwe
Profile is a folder which store all your personal data in a safe place
Here explain how to backup profile
Here explain how to restore it
Hi again,
As Swarnava has noted, please try this: install Firefox on the laptop and open the profile folder via Firefox Help (Alt + H) > Troubleshooting Information > Open Containing Folder. On the desktop too, Open Containing Folder and copy and overwrite the relevant files to the opened folder on the laptop. For eg. to copy the history + bookmarks you would copy and overwrite the places.sqlite file from the desktop folder into the laptop folder. Likewise for the other files.
BTW: Is the ESET warning still appearing??
Ilungisiwe
ok this is what i did i install fresh copy of 10.2 and restore my bookmarks to this fresh copy .
but my cache file on laptop is 900mb my sqlite 45mb
desktop cache 29kb and sqlite 5mb
i was trying to make a copy of my cache file but windows vista wont let me do it it freezes at 50%
You can try starting Firefox and check if everything is okay. Temporarily suspending the antivirus may help to finish the copying. Please also see this.
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Vivek.Wilfred & Swarnava i took a chance and deleted all the html/iframe.B.Gen virus that came up on my nod32 and it WORKS fine thanks for all your help
Glad you resolved it. Thanks for the feedback.