Earlier today I was having some problems with my Edge browser not loading a YouTube video beyond 1 minute and 4 seconds into the video so I decided to swap over to Firefox. When I was setting up Firefox I chose the option to import my saved passwords from the Edge browser and not even 1 second later Norton 360 notified me of an intrusion attempt. There were actually 2, 1 second apart.
3/24/2023 11:59:14 AM
Category: Intrusion Prevention
An intrusion attempt by 139.45.197.236 was blocked.
Malicious Site: Malicious Domain Request 22
Attacking Computer: 139.45.197.236, 443
Attacker URL: https[:]//lephaush[.]net
Traffic Description: TCP, https
Network traffic from https[:]//lephaush[.]net matches the signature of a known attack. The attack was resulted from DEVICEHARDDISKVOLUME5PROGRAM FILESMOZILLA FIREFOXFIREFOX.EXE.
3/24/2023 11:59:15 AM
Category: Intrusion Prevention
An intrusion attempt by 139.45.197.238 was blocked.
Web Attack: Unwanted Push Advertisement Website 8
Attacking Computer: 139.45.197.238, 443
Attacker URL: https[:]//rndskittytor[.]net
Traffic Description: TCP, https
Network traffic from https[:]//rndskittytor[.]com matches the signature of a known attack. The attack was resulted from DEVICEHARDDISKVOLUME5PROGRAM FILESMOZILLA FIREFOXFIREFOX.EXE.
The timing of the alert has me paranoid because I did get a virus back in December that stole all of my saved passwords from Google Chrome. I used a USB stick and another computer to completely wipe the hard drives and install a fresh Windows after that so I would like to think that I removed it all. I even chose not to back up any of my old files and start from square 1 just to be sure.
I did make sure that I downloaded Firefox from the appropriate website because the virus I got back in December was from a fake MSI Afterburner website that Google listed as the 1st search result as an ad and I wasn’t paying much attention.
So why was my Firefox involved in this sketchy behavior before Firefox was even finished with the initialization process?
If anyone has any ideas about this or knows of a more appropriate subreddit to post this to, please let me know.
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