This is behind the scenes of course with me doing nothing to initiate contact. I previously contacted MB support about such warnings and they told me to uninstall two ext… (read more)
This is behind the scenes of course with me doing nothing to initiate contact. I previously contacted MB support about such warnings and they told me to uninstall two extensions--Video Download Helper and AddtoAny. I've used both for a long time, but uninstalling them did fix that particular problem wherein the browser kept trying to connect to techalert.com, a site that is (through research) apparently for shareware? I don't recall ever being on it. But that's stopped.
But there was another. See jpg attachment. This is pretty much every day that I'm being told FF is trying to connect to something that is offering up a Trojan--apparently through Instagram??? That also makes little sense.
Most recently, I have two MORE such attempts to connect in the background, this time with full IP addresses. Both of those seem to be compromised sites in Pakistan according to a little research I did. (I have no dealings with Pakistan.) Why these two latest have full IP addresses and the others (see image) only deal with an Instagram URL, have no idea.
So, I contacted MB support again. They said it was not a false positive and they couldn't be sure what was doing this, but "something on firefox is reaching out to the IP address." At first they suggested returning FF to a default state. I'm reluctant to do that considering how much time spent getting it where I want it. So, now, they suggest turning off extensions one-by-one. That's a better idea, but certainly labor intensive and something that may take awhile.
So before I undertake this potentially time consuming task, does anyone here have some idea of what's happening?
P.s. scans came up clean of my system, no trojans, malware detected.
Win11, latest updates, FF 133.03 64 bit