Opera 73.0.3827.0 developer update

[kened]

kened Banned @ziegensatan last edited by

@ziegensatan Was it, then, a false positive? What is strange is that Opera never makes this type of update (download .dlls).

[ralf-brinkmann]

ralf-brinkmann @pclaudel1 last edited by

@pclaudel1 I always download the installer files from the same official source and I did it at once after it was uploaded by Opera (29th of September). My Windows Defender is always switched on and I also scanned the file manually again after I read this thread some hours ago. No alarm, no problems, no virus. And no changes in the browser, as Foxiebro usually does. It would be easy for me to remove Opera, because it's installed as standalone version on my computer.

[pclaudel1]

pclaudel1 @ralf-brinkmann last edited by

@ralf-brinkmann Thank you very much for the additional information.

[pclaudel1]

pclaudel1 @kened last edited by

@kened I'm very grateful. I would have gone about it much differently and would probably have made a mess of it!

[kened]

kened Banned @pclaudel1 last edited by kened

@pclaudel1 You're welcome!

[andrew84]

andrew84 @kened last edited by

@kened said in Opera 73.0.3827.0 developer update:

What is strange is that Opera never makes this type of update (download .dlls).

You have only the single .dll installer in Temp directory?

[kened]

kened Banned @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 Now, I removed everything.

[pclaudel1]

pclaudel1 @ziegensatan last edited by pclaudel1

@ziegensatan Interesting. On the basis of your experience, I just switched Defender off and turned Malwarebytes Premium on and downloaded 73.0.3827.0. No alarms, no problems. Windows Security continues to report that my system is secure.

I just hope that Windows Defender is wrong and Malwarebytes is right about the .dll file not being Foxiebro.

[kened]

kened Banned @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 When Windows Defender accused that those dlls were infected, I removed them. When opening Opera Developer, he downloaded them again.

[andrew84]

andrew84 @kened last edited by

@kened strange is that I have a bunch of the .dll in Temp directory but most recent is from 2018. I'm updating Dev build regularly, every week.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kened last edited by

@kened Most probably it was just a false positive like all the similar alerts that came before that one.

When only one antivirus detects the threat, it's probably a false positive.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kened last edited by

@kened The DLLs are part of the installer.

[kened]

kened Banned @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 Really strange.

[kened]

kened Banned @leocg last edited by

@leocg I hope for that.

[kened]

kened Banned @leocg last edited by

@leocg Yes. Windows Defender probably prevented the installation of these dlls at the time of installing Opera Developer; then later he tried to download the dlls again.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kened last edited by

@kened And you probably will see it happen next times that autoupdate runs.

[kened]

kened Banned @leocg last edited by

@leocg I will wait for the next build.

[padua]

padua @craigsn last edited by padua

@craigsn I used a 'thorough' uninstaller, which uninstalls and looks for leftover folders / files and allow deletion of them as well- the one I used is Revo Uninstaller, the free edition.

Just to check, switched to the regular release version of Opera - which did not throw up the Foxiebro issue.

[padua]

padua @ralf-brinkmann last edited by

@ralf-brinkmann It was from the 'update and recovery' option of the Opera Dev version.

As I have mentioned in another post, there was no issue with the regular release version.

[padua]

padua @kened last edited by padua

@kened Good point. When there are so many posts on the forum about this issue - even if it indeed is a false positive a quick and reassuring response from a moderator / admin / dev team member would be appropriate.

Thanks to the Opera team.

• it is a browser that I have been using for many years (from when there was some detail on the Opera web site / blog about the small town where the Opera software development work was happening - in those days)

But, when there is an issue like this, a formal / official response in a day or two would be welcome.