Firefox gets caught by bitdefender antivirus or firewall
Every 20 minutes or so I get a notification from Bitdefender Online Threat Prevention module indicated it has blocked a suspicious connection. This has only started about 2-3 days ago. The only information the popup indicates is:
"firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to gitcdn.xyz. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one."
I performed a full system scan and found nothing harmful. Anyone know what this is or how I can fix it?
Réiteach roghnaithe
Thanks for the info, Fred. I looked into the problem a bit deeper (it wasn't cause by Malwarebyte and still running the other tools to be safe) and found a few posts on Reddit that say it's a Firefox add-on, likely uBlock Origin, that is having some trouble updating its database. Other users running Bitdefender are having the same error pop up these last few days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitDefender/comments/m9d0io/gitcdnxyz/
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You may have ad/mal-ware. 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 free to use malware scanners. Each works differently. If one program misses something, another may pick it up.
Réiteach Roghnaithe
Thanks for the info, Fred. I looked into the problem a bit deeper (it wasn't cause by Malwarebyte and still running the other tools to be safe) and found a few posts on Reddit that say it's a Firefox add-on, likely uBlock Origin, that is having some trouble updating its database. Other users running Bitdefender are having the same error pop up these last few days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitDefender/comments/m9d0io/gitcdnxyz/