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Are you aware that the virus Privacy Protection has infected your website? I got the virus last night from downloading!

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your download of firefox is infected with privacy protection!

your download of firefox is infected with privacy protection!

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Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and Searches are redirected to another site

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You probably picked that up elsewhere as everything on Mozilla is thoroughly scanned.

Here is info on Privacy Protection and how to remove it:


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