How To Completely Remove FlashGot?

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UnknownZ
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How To Completely Remove FlashGot?

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I installed FlashGot but then I found there is a malware -> Trojan.Malware.Win32.xPack.m. I attached the screenshot.

I already removed from Add-ons - Extensions, but when I checked my Profiles folder, I found these two files: FlashGot.exe and flashgot.txt

Beside that, when I checked Firefox about:config, I can still see many FlashGot entries there.

Please tell me how to completely remove FlashGot.

Thanks.

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Re: How To Completely Remove FlashGot?

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One out of 43, & by something called "ByteHero"?
Ever hear of "false positives"?

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/rep ... 1322410975

Perhaps you ought to submit FlashGot.exe to ByteHero & have them analyze it.

Anyhow, remove FlashGot just the same as most any other extension, from Add-ons Manager.
After that, go into your Profile directory & delete the file, FlashGot.exe.

(@G, would think that a Remove should automatically delete FlashGot.exe?)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
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Re: How To Completely Remove FlashGot?

Post by therube »

Note that ALL (AFAIK) extensions leave their preferences in prefs.js.
(Wonder why they do that if you 'Remove' them?)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball NoScript FlashGot AdblockPlus
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a2) Gecko/20111128 Firefox/10.0a2 SeaMonkey/2.7a2
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Re: How To Completely Remove FlashGot?

Post by FirefoxUser »

Hi therube,

It's always been Fx behaviour to conserve User Set prefs after uninstall, but not default ones - in my experience. Not a bad thing for Fx to leave User settings alone, I think.
The user who wants to tidy up prefs *that have nothing left installed to work on* simply has to either edit them out of their prefs.js file or to use about:config to change "reset" them. Context clicking the preference brings up this option. After a reset, the reset prefs are deleted at the next restart.
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