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Possible virus?(Firefox)
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Install clamav and run a scan. You will probably get false positives.
For instance the gnome polkit agent has a "malicious" image that it tries to load at start and if it succeeds it kills the program before it can run. This is to keep an actually malicious icon from being used. I spent days on that one lol
But isnt clam AV only for detecting Windows viruses?
Depends on the malware database you use, but out of the box it'll catch wide range of stuff, even linux malwares (which is rare but exists and mostly infect vulnerable web servers).