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I stream anime on my pc from a anime site and now all of a sudden i can not as there is some sort of pop-up window telling to download a video converter add-on

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Ass the question suggests i stream anime from a site and now all of a sudden there is a pop-up on a new tab prompting me to download a video conversion tool add-on to fire fox for downloading and online vids.The pop-up suggests its in correspondence with fire fox. Is this a compulsarry download or not? A i obviously cannot watch anime now!!

Never use to be like this when i stream from that specific site, and its only for that site i get the pop-up! Obviously this is vexing and i hope fire fox is not becoming the next google where verification and personal info is needed for everything you do ( which is a blatent miss use of power and invasion of privacy)
Ass the question suggests i stream anime from a site and now all of a sudden there is a pop-up on a new tab prompting me to download a video conversion tool add-on to fire fox for downloading and online vids.The pop-up suggests its in correspondence with fire fox. Is this a compulsarry download or not? A i obviously cannot watch anime now!! Never use to be like this when i stream from that specific site, and its only for that site i get the pop-up! Obviously this is vexing and i hope fire fox is not becoming the next google where verification and personal info is needed for everything you do ( which is a blatent miss use of power and invasion of privacy)

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Hi   oom Daan   !

Would it be possible for you to give us a link to that site and maybe provide us with a screenshot of that pop-up   ?

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Thank you!

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Hi there

Not that keen on giving a link to the site cause as of late a lot of torrent sites and streaming sites are being shut down du to the corporate sticklers controlling what we watch cant proffit of off them!! But i did post a snap of the pop-up screen!! Hope it helps??

Thank you!

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Thank you for that screenshot   -   red flag   !

That   channel1.vids.com   is bad news   !

Go to the 3-bar menu => Addons => and look for any unfamiliar or suspicious looking extensions, like e.g.:

SafeSearch Incognito
SearchAssist Incognito

When you find any :   remove them.

Do the same in Windows' Control Panel => Programs.

However :   most malware will be 'hiding' somewhere , so let's run malware scans :

Further information can be found in this article :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware?cache=no

Run most or all of the listed malware scanners.
They all work differently   -   what one program doesn't pick up, the other might.

Also :   please, do   not  click on anything when you see those pop-ups   !

Maybe you'd like to consider installing this add-on, which may help prevent this from happening again in the future :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

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Hi there Thanks for the help! I use Kaspersky anti-virus aswell as all its blocking abillities when on the net but will run a few malware programmes aswell

Thank you for the help!!


Appreciated!!

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oomDaan said

I use Kaspersky anti-virus aswell as all its blocking abillities when on the net but will run a few malware programmes aswell

Please, run all   of them   -   that's really important   !