How do I permanently remove Mozilla Maintenance Service?
Every time I manually update firefox, it reinstalls the automatic update malware "Mozilla Maintenance Service". I can't stop this malware from being installed with my browser every time I update Firefox. I call it malware because its not wanted, and it behaves like malware by secretly downloading content without my consent and then shutting down my browser when it finishes by blocking access to all new tabs.
I've tried adding policies to stop auto updates, but Mozilla Maintenance Service ignores all policies. I'm going to see if I can contact AVG and explain to them that Mozilla Maintenance Service is malware and see if I can get it classified as such to see if that'll finally get through to someone because I'm sick of this crap constantly being installed and forcing things on me whenever they want and not when I want.
Now after this update, every google search forces open my location service trying to force me to give location rights. This update is even more malware than all the other updates before hand. Firefox is getting extremely dangerous.
Krejt Përgjigjet (23)
You might believe it is malicious software, but you should not expect makers of anti malware scanners to have the same view.
For the vast majority of people using Firefox, this software is a benefit as it keeps their copy of Firefox up to date, stable and secure.
Paul said
You might believe it is malicious software, but you should not expect makers of anti malware scanners to have the same view. For the vast majority of people using Firefox, this software is a benefit as it keeps their copy of Firefox up to date, stable and secure.
Then the developers need to fix it to obey consent. This is flat out ridiculous.
I have found maintenanceservice.exe and another file related to it in the Mozilla Firefox folder in the program files. I have deleted both files, created a text file with their same name, and revoked all permissions from both files so that the files cannot be overridden, deleted, or replaced.
The extremes I have to go to, to gain control over my own fracking browser.
Thank you for letting us know.
I am going to close this thread as it seems to have progressed from being a support issue to feedback.
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