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I show this PUP.Optional.Vosteran malware attached to 49 Mozilla profile files

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tbinstl
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I show this PUP.Optional.Vosteran malware attached to 49 Mozilla profile files I have windows 8.1 pro 64-bit use Malwarebytes premium v2.0.4.1028 and McAfee v16.8

This line is repeated 49 times: PUP.Optional.Vosteran, C:\Users\Terry Barton\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1i32t6sx.default-1382220330826\user.js, Good: (), Bad: (user_pref("extensions.srchvstrn.srchPrvdr", "Vosteran");), ,[5c02e3869ae240f63026c9f155b02bd5] PUP.Optional.Vosteran,

I show this PUP.Optional.Vosteran malware attached to 49 Mozilla profile files I have windows 8.1 pro 64-bit use Malwarebytes premium v2.0.4.1028 and McAfee v16.8 This line is repeated 49 times: PUP.Optional.Vosteran, C:\Users\Terry Barton\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1i32t6sx.default-1382220330826\user.js, Good: (), Bad: (user_pref("extensions.srchvstrn.srchPrvdr", "Vosteran");), ,[5c02e3869ae240f63026c9f155b02bd5] PUP.Optional.Vosteran,

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John99
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Hi Terry,

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program. It is the sort of thing you probably do not want but will have been downloaded and installed by you or some other user.

I do not use the premium MalwareBytes but their site does have full instructions for removing this problem:

Read the article and post back to say how you get on.