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For those who are still occasionally seeing a malware warning in Firefox, here's how to fix it:
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1. In Firefox, click on the orange Firefox bar at the top left. Then move your mouse over "Help"... then click on "Troubleshooting Information".
2. That will bring up a new page in your browser. On that new page, click on the button on the right that says "Reset Firefox".
That will do it. The malware warning will disappear.
I have been testing with Firefox all weekend. Here's what's been happening.
1. If you visited FAA on Friday night (U.S. Time) when Google had us on their blacklist, then you saw a malware warning in your browser. All browsers were showing the warning (i.e. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.)
2. We were removed from the blacklist later that same night. At that point, all of the browsers removed the warning, as well.
3. For some reason, Firefox has been intermittently displaying the warning ever since, even though FAA is clean and we're not on the Google blacklist.
4. The intermittent warning is only affecting Firefox, and it's only affecting Firefox users who happened to visit FAA on Friday night when we were on the blacklist. It's not affecting new visitors, at all. Our traffic levels are as high as they always are. Sunday, for example, was our best Sunday in the history of FAA in terms of traffic.
It seems as though Firefox may have downloaded some file when we were on the blacklist, and that file keeps telling it that FAA is dangerous, even though we're not.
By clicking on the link, above, and reseting Firefox, you're getting rid of that file. At that point, everything works correctly.
Sean
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