is this safe to download and install: motive extention 1.0 please answer yes or no, it popped up on Firefox wanting to install on my desktop windows xp
none of the answer's provided before actually answer the question that has been asked before, please answer is this safe, is it malware??/
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hello dogeeze, please never install anything that you haven't requested yourself just because a popup tells you so.
there might already be some sort of malware present on your pc when such popups appear. therefore i'd suggest to go to firefox > addons > extensions & to remove any suspicious entries (toolbars, things that you have not installed intentionally, don't know what purpose they serve, etc).
also go to the windows control panel / programs and remove all toolbars or potentially unwanted software from there.
finally, run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the free version of malwarebytes & adwcleaner.
I also had Motive, and was never able to find out what it is or where it
came from. There is a web site with that name. I think they collect web
data or some such. You should also check your plug-ins. I found Motive
there as well. If you do a search of your hard drive, you may find several
Motive folders. What I did was to rename all the motive folders. The Motive
extensions were still there, so I disabled them. After I
Reset Firefox
during an unrelated problem, Motive was gone.
I hope this helps.