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Explore says Firefox installation file has virus

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Trying to download firefox the bar at the bottom of browers gets to 99% the bar says it has a virus and deletes the firefox exe file before Firefox can install.

Trying to download firefox the bar at the bottom of browers gets to 99% the bar says it has a virus and deletes the firefox exe file before Firefox can install.

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Try the full setup as some antivirus clients still occasionally give false positive on the stub installer even though the stub installer has existed since Firefox 18.0

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/