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Trojan Warning from windows defender

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Ville
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Im very worried, today (8th of june) I got a trojan warning from windows defender. the contamination affected this file path :

file: C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\owhmdxi4.default-release\extensions\langpack-en-US@firefox.mozilla.org.xpi

below i have a picture of the addons i was using at the time and also the virus report.

Im very worried, today (8th of june) I got a trojan warning from windows defender. the contamination affected this file path : file: C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\owhmdxi4.default-release\extensions\langpack-en-US@firefox.mozilla.org.xpi below i have a picture of the addons i was using at the time and also the virus report.
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cor-el
cor-el
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Your System Details show that you have the en-US language pack installed as the last extension in the list.

  • {name: Language: English (US), type: locale, version: 114.0.20230601.151220, isActive: TRUE, id: langpack-en-US@firefox.mozilla.org}

You probably installed this language pack because you have a Firefox version for your local (Swedish) language and want to have the user interface in English. Language pack appear under the Language tab on the about:addons page and not under extensions. This is likely a false positive although it is the first time that I know of that Microsoft Defender Antivirus reports such a issue. You can try to uninstall and reinstall this language pack.

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Your System Details show that you have the en-US language pack installed as the last extension in the list.
  • {name: Language: English (US), type: locale, version: 114.0.20230601.151220, isActive: TRUE, id: langpack-en-US@firefox.mozilla.org}
You probably installed this language pack because you have a Firefox version for your local (Swedish) language and want to have the user interface in English. Language pack appear under the Language tab on the about:addons page and not under extensions. This is likely a false positive although it is the first time that I know of that Microsoft Defender Antivirus reports such a issue. You can try to uninstall and reinstall this language pack.


yeah its the first time i see it too, ive had english lang pack installed for a very long time but it only recently got flagged. ill try reinstalling the language pack and see if the issue persists