share3141 Posted November 25, 2015 ID:1003498 Share Posted November 25, 2015 I ran two back-to-back scans and received the following two logs. I do not know how to interpret the error message that came up. This is the first time I have ever seen any issues with FF. Any help in interpreting this would be appreciated.123.txt678.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted November 25, 2015 Staff ID:1003499 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Hi,This is no False Positive.However, it is marked as a potentially Unwanted Modification.This means, or you have willingly made the tweak to override the "Turn Off Firefox’s New Mixed Content Blocker" (see here: https://cyntech.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/turn-off-firefoxs-new-mixed-content-blocker)or some Malware (often PUP) has set this. If you have not made this tweak manually, then you can let Malwarebytes safely remove this. After all, the user.js file is not a file created by default in your Firefox profile, but only created in order to override the preferences.js file.In case you *are* aware of this "override" and have set this yourself, then you can safely ignore this detection and add to your whitelist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted November 25, 2015 Staff ID:1003500 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Share3141 - mind to upload (zip/attach) your user.js here as well? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
share3141 Posted November 25, 2015 Author ID:1003539 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Not at all. I appreciate the feedback. Apparently I cannot up load files with an extension of js. So I named the file user.txt. user.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
share3141 Posted November 25, 2015 Author ID:1003553 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Well I let Malwarebytes do its thing to fix the problem and it deleted user.js. Not what I thought would happen. I'm just a little lost why it decided today to flag this as an issue. I've run these two programs (MB and FF) for years together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
share3141 Posted November 25, 2015 Author ID:1003555 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Hmm. I am on release 43b6. The article talks about release 23 and the issue being fixed in release 24. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted November 26, 2015 Staff ID:1003661 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Hi, The reason why it only detected since recently was because this detection was only added recently as well since we noticed malware setting this policy in user.js.We have finetuned our detection in a meanwhile so as you've noticed, it won't hit anymore under certain conditions. It looks like you used Configfox: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/26/configfox-1-4-update-improves-search-among-other-things/This overrides the preferences.js file rather. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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