From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox
SOLVED:
Some ramifications for both win11 and FF.
For windows, the problem is that a series of notifications will
obscure much of the screen making it hard to do things.
For Firefox, the fake virus notifications attribute themselves to
Firefox, and blocking them within Firefox did stop their 35-second
repeating, but not their immediate replacment when one was x'd out.
I've suddenly started getting a long series of these, for no apparent
reason I think they are phishing but I'd like them to stop
The text:
Mozilla Firefox -- Critical Virus Alert
Click her to renew, or sometimes remove.
via
d2Sqocghubcc73aqcc00.blockbridgesolutio0ns.
SOLVED:
Do as follows:
Open Firefox.
Click the stacked menu () at the top right. -- it means the
hamburger
Click Settings, Privacy & Security.
Scroll down to find Permissions or type Permissions in the search
bar (Find in Settings).
Click Settings next to Notifications.
Select the Block new requests asking to allow notifications checkbox
and then Save Changes. This setting stops sites from making any new
requests to send notifications.
https://www.mcafee.com/support/s/article/000001899?language=en_US
It was there all right. Setting to blocked stopped the autonmatic 35-
second new one, but didn't stop the instantaneous replacement when I
closed one. Don't want to restart windows again until malbytesware
scan finnishes.
Okay, the full scan finished
1 hour, 34 minutes, Scanned 585,109 files***, Detections 7
(How come, when I ran a full scan with Windows Defender it took
1 hour, 23 minutes, Scanned 2,322,043 files, about 4 times as
many!!!)
Six are from Nirsoft and are good, 5 are labeled malware and one
labeled PUP.
But one is named HackTool Snadboy
It says I downloaded it, would have been a prior computer, in August of
2023. And it contains only SetupRevelationV2.exe. Yet I never got an
alert on this file before when doing a virus scan.
When I pointed the file manager to that file, the the warnings started
up again, but this time from Windows Defender.
The warning boxes from Windows Defender, like the Notifications from
whatever was giving out the fake warnings, take up the right-most 20% of
the screen, and if there are 3, one above the other, it makes it
impossible to vertically scroll a window, or even to X out a window, or
to switch it from Maximized to Normal. With Firefox, even if it is
normal, it's hard to move it to the left because there is no place to
put the curros, unless you remember to hold down Alt and get the title
bar back.
** I have so many files, more than I need, and I'll bet some people
don't have enough of them. I feel guilty.
Continued description of the problem, from before solving it:
Always in the name of Firefox, sometimes in the name of McAfee, which I
haven't got.
Three of them along the right side of the screen obscuring about 20% of
the scrreen including areas that clicking on parts of the systray would display. Every 35 seconds a new box opens, pushing down the top two and
making the one at the bottom disappear. When I X out one, another
immediately opens above it. this continued even after Firefox was
closed.
Some claimed my data had been stolen!! (Good thing I use data that I
stole from someone else.)
Restarted Windows, no effect
Deep Malbytesware scan, 7 Detections but most will be programs from
Nirsoft meant to find system keys, not actual malware.
System Defender Scan. Didn't do before finding and deleting probem file
and its directory. Although I did start to do it and it showed two
problem files, the one I deleted and
file: C:\Users\mmm\AppData\LocalLow\IGDump\X86_00\17539883350.ext
with pointer to
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?name=PUA%3AWin32%2FPresenoker&threatid=242420
which describes symptoms I didn't get. IGDump and everthing within it
appears to be gone now.
I think Windows Defender said a full scan would take 12 h ours, but it's lowered that to 3 hours now.
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