exile360 Posted January 7, 2021 ID:1430981 Share Posted January 7, 2021 The logs attached to this post as well as this post are being flagged as viruses by Firefox, at least for me. Scans with VT come back clean of course. Anyone have any ideas what the issue could be? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1430985 Share Posted January 7, 2021 How so? I use Firefox but I don't allow them to control what I download or not in their settings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1430986 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Downloaded just fine for me in FireFox Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted January 7, 2021 Author ID:1430987 Share Posted January 7, 2021 It's likely due to this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work?as=u&utm_source=inproduct I have the following options enabled in Firefox: I suspect I'm not the only one however, since when I uploaded the first ZIP to VT it had already been scanned 14 minutes earlier, so someone else had the same bright idea of scanning it, and I doubt it was just for funzies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1430989 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Yep, I don't use Firefox to tell me what is good / or bad. Not exactly their forte... You can submit it to them as a FP or disable that setting and use Malwarebytes 🙂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1430991 Share Posted January 7, 2021 No issues with Firefox for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1430992 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Moved to General chat. Nothing to do with Forum software or Malwarebytes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted January 7, 2021 Author ID:1430994 Share Posted January 7, 2021 No idea, it's probably a weirdness with certain content in the logs and Firefox's blocking I guess. As I mentioned though, I wasn't the first to upload that ZIP to VT, so I bet someone else saw the same thing that I did. I'm not too worried about it since it's just a ZIP of mostly text files, but just thought I'd post about it in case it was an issue with the recent IPS update since I hadn't seen it before (nor have I made any changes to Firefox lately, and it occurred before and after installing today's new Firefox release). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted January 7, 2021 ID:1430997 Share Posted January 7, 2021 This is my setting that was never changed from default. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1430999 Share Posted January 7, 2021 My setting is not default, it is on purpose. I don't need or want some web browser developer deciding for me what is good or not. I can decide on my own if I want it or not. Firefox updates their back end quite often and that's probably why you're seeing it now. Again, please go ahead and post to Mozilla as an FP if you want. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1PW Posted January 7, 2021 ID:1431054 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Though I was using Firefox 84.0.2 within macOS Big Sur 11.1 (20C69), I too support & confirm @exile360's observations. By going to Firefox -> Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Security and unticking Block dangerous and deceptive content, the browser's warnings are suppressed. I too believe staff should report this false positive to Mozilla. HTH 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 7, 2021 Root Admin ID:1431095 Share Posted January 7, 2021 We don't really want user's data being sent to other sites and only myself and a few others should even be downloading these files. Perhaps we need to look at restricting access to these files more. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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