Solved: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
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Solved: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Hi got a mozilla pop-up window with a (fake) windows defender warning about being infected with the zeus virus.
Of course this is rubbish, quite a few people in the windows world got these.
My problem is that all the advice about how to remove this pop-up is for windows.
It comes back after every re-boot.
Does anybody know how to remove this in Linux Mint 18?
Trawled the web and used Google with no avail.
Thanks in advance. Herman (Linux newbie)
Of course this is rubbish, quite a few people in the windows world got these.
My problem is that all the advice about how to remove this pop-up is for windows.
It comes back after every re-boot.
Does anybody know how to remove this in Linux Mint 18?
Trawled the web and used Google with no avail.
Thanks in advance. Herman (Linux newbie)
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Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Do you use any adblocker and/or scriptblocker of the sort?
Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Hi Herman,
what you need to do, is to determine, what software is being used to create that pop-up.
ie: is it Adobe / Shockwave Flash, or something similar ?.
and have that set to "never activate", via add-on manager.
what you need to do, is to determine, what software is being used to create that pop-up.
ie: is it Adobe / Shockwave Flash, or something similar ?.
and have that set to "never activate", via add-on manager.
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Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Shrink firefox to a window.hchristiani wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:34 pm Hi got a mozilla pop-up window with a (fake) windows defender warning about being infected with the zeus virus.
Of course this is rubbish, quite a few people in the windows world got these.
My problem is that all the advice about how to remove this pop-up is for windows.
It comes back after every re-boot.
Does anybody know how to remove this in Linux Mint 18?
Trawled the web and used Google with no avail.
Thanks in advance. Herman (Linux newbie)
Drag the offending tab out of the window, creating another window.
Close the window, or use system monitor to close it, if it doesn't close.
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One thing I would suggest, create a partition as a 50G partition as /. Partition the rest as /Home. IF the system fails, reinstall and use the exact same username and all your 'stuff' comes back to you.
One thing I would suggest, create a partition as a 50G partition as /. Partition the rest as /Home. IF the system fails, reinstall and use the exact same username and all your 'stuff' comes back to you.
Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
The one with the computer-reading a message?hchristiani wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:34 pmHi got a mozilla pop-up window with a (fake) windows defender warning about being infected with the zeus virus.
Have you setIt comes back after every re-boot.
Prefs->When Firefox Starts -> (don't) Show last time
? I think all I did to get rid of it was set that (already set that way) and kill firefox, then restart it. Does the stupid thing prevent you from setting preferneces with the menu?
Also clean everything (except passwords) Ctrl+Shift+Del
then restart.
If that doesn't work (part of my occasional 'clean'):
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rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox/cache/firefox/*
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default/datareporting/*
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default/saved-telemetry-pings
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default/storage/default
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default/storage/temporary
Please edit your original post title to include [SOLVED] if/when it is solved!
Your data and OS are backed up....right?
Your data and OS are backed up....right?
Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
This will probably work.
Back up your bookmarks: bookmarks/show all bookmarks/import and back up
Close firefox
Go to your home folder and press ctrl + H and delete the folder ..mozilla
Open firefox and re-add your bookmarks
Done.
Go to: tools/addons/extensions and install ublock origin
and maybe
NoScript
httpseverywhere.
Note this method will delete all your other firefox settings including passwords.
Back up your bookmarks: bookmarks/show all bookmarks/import and back up
Close firefox
Go to your home folder and press ctrl + H and delete the folder ..mozilla
Open firefox and re-add your bookmarks
Done.
Go to: tools/addons/extensions and install ublock origin
and maybe
NoScript
httpseverywhere.
Note this method will delete all your other firefox settings including passwords.
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Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Using a Password Manager will keep you out of trouble,
I usually never let Firefox "keep the passwords", I let LastPass fill in the blanks for any website that has personal data.
I usually never let Firefox "keep the passwords", I let LastPass fill in the blanks for any website that has personal data.
Solved Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Hi, thanks for all the help, it was quite a persistent pop-up and prevented me from changing.
In the end the easiest solution was uninstalling Firefox and deleting .mozilla.
not a big deal I have a Lastpass and speed dial pro 2 accounts. Thanks
In the end the easiest solution was uninstalling Firefox and deleting .mozilla.
not a big deal I have a Lastpass and speed dial pro 2 accounts. Thanks
Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Hi hchristiani,
I would second Mattyboy's suggestion above on the installation of those three addons. With such a combination most baddies will keep out of your
browsers. For Chrome there is ScriptSafe, as alternative to NoScript in FireFox. ScriptSafe is available for FF too.
Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
I find that uBlock Origin is much better than adblock or adblock plus.
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Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Hi, yes I have has installed uBlock origin on Firefox,Hoser Rob wrote: ⤴Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:29 amI find that uBlock Origin is much better than adblock or adblock plus.
after the above troubles I checked to make sure,
to my surprise uBlock and Adblock both were swiched "OFF"
I never did this, maybe they have newer scripts to disable them?
Quite happy I don't have to deal with windows anymore.
Re: Solved Re: How to remove Fake windows defender virus warning
Okay cool. To mark the topic as solved, please edit the title of the first post in the thread; that way, it can be seen from the forum overview page. Thanks!hchristiani wrote: ⤴Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:08 am Hi, thanks for all the help, it was quite a persistent pop-up and prevented me from changing.
In the end the easiest solution was uninstalling Firefox and deleting .mozilla.
If your issue is solved, kindly indicate that by editing the first post in the topic, and adding [SOLVED] to the title. Thanks!