I came down with a virus, and my antivirus software didn't seem to do anything.
I noticed that it filled my web browsers with ads from somebody named "saveron." So I searched for that keyword, and came up with a few results. I right-clicked and said "open file location."
I found out this virus was located in a folder in my Firefox installation called "profiles." I assumed that the whole folder was a virus, since the two sub-folders were just a random assortment of letters and numbers. I assumed that the titles of legitimate folders would be named something I could understand.
So, I deleted the folders permanently (I didn't want the virus to realize it was in the recycle bin and move itself back out).
However, when I went to launch Firefox again, it said that it couldn't load my profile. Yeah, apparently, you need at least one profile for Firefox to work at all!
So, I went ot my control panel and uninstalled Firefox, downloaded it again. However, the problem of a lack of a profile still persisted, even though this was a completely new install.
Does anyone have a copy of a vanilla Firefox profile that they can send to me? You know... the sort of folder that gets installed if Firefox is the very first thing you download, immediately after a factory restore?
I noticed that it filled my web browsers with ads from somebody named "saveron." So I searched for that keyword, and came up with a few results. I right-clicked and said "open file location."
I found out this virus was located in a folder in my Firefox installation called "profiles." I assumed that the whole folder was a virus, since the two sub-folders were just a random assortment of letters and numbers. I assumed that the titles of legitimate folders would be named something I could understand.
So, I deleted the folders permanently (I didn't want the virus to realize it was in the recycle bin and move itself back out).
However, when I went to launch Firefox again, it said that it couldn't load my profile. Yeah, apparently, you need at least one profile for Firefox to work at all!
So, I went ot my control panel and uninstalled Firefox, downloaded it again. However, the problem of a lack of a profile still persisted, even though this was a completely new install.
Does anyone have a copy of a vanilla Firefox profile that they can send to me? You know... the sort of folder that gets installed if Firefox is the very first thing you download, immediately after a factory restore?
