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Add-on flagged as trojan and scam

Antivirus flags the add-on as a trojan or scam, and users fear it could read their sensitive files.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 6 March 2021 · last reported 8 May 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Some Firefox users report that antivirus software flagged this Flash Player add-on as a trojan, and that it opens sites the antivirus had already marked as dangerous.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.