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Upgrade to .40, Kaspersky finds a trojan and deletes firefox Why

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BillWH
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Trying to update to to.40, Kaspersky immediately sees aTrojan in Firefox.exe and deletes Firefox altogether. Has anyone else found this please? The Trojan is PDM.Trojan.Win32.generic and seems to embedded in Firefox.exe

Trying to update to to.40, Kaspersky immediately sees aTrojan in Firefox.exe and deletes Firefox altogether. Has anyone else found this please? The Trojan is PDM.Trojan.Win32.generic and seems to embedded in Firefox.exe

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FredMcD
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If you get the install from Mozilla.org , it is safe.

Download Firefox Full Installer For All languages And Systemsv40 {web link}

the-edmeister
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Report that to Kaspersky - probably a false positive and they may need to fix their definitions.