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i downloaded your mozilla and it was a fkn virus. my comp is in long recovery of scanning and cleaning cause of its updates. thank you for the headache and cost

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heres malicious files that your latest Mozilla drops and nothing is letting me upload any evidence ive waited 30 min and the upload still hasn't sent to you. its just a small file showin you the log of what firefox dropped in appdata. forget it ill just stop using your non profit app, that's why it sucks.

heres malicious files that your latest Mozilla drops and nothing is letting me upload any evidence ive waited 30 min and the upload still hasn't sent to you. its just a small file showin you the log of what firefox dropped in appdata. forget it ill just stop using your non profit app, that's why it sucks.

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hi, please only download firefox through the official homepage at https://www.mozilla.org/firefox, it will never include any form of malware there!

if you can still reconstruct through your browser history where you have been tricked to download an infected/fake bundle of firefox, please report them at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/fraud-report/ so that further actions can be taken.

Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware

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hi, please only download firefox through the official homepage at https://www.mozilla.org/firefox, it will never include any form of malware there!

if you can still reconstruct through your browser history where you have been tricked to download an infected/fake bundle of firefox, please report them at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/fraud-report/ so that further actions can be taken.

Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware

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The full setup can be found on www.mozilla.org/firefox/all

Some antivirus clients still give false positives with the small online stub installer served on www.mozilla.org even though it has existed since Firefox 18.0

Otherwise no version of Firefox (for Windows, Mac OSX or Linux) from mozilla.org has come with any viruses, or trojans or adware or malware etc.

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