Unreputable toolbar found in Firefox

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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When using the latest Firefox 64-bit, Avast will display a pop-up message saying Unreputable toolbar found. I click on resolve but the next screen does not list any toolbars at all.

I do have a copy of the log ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\log\Browser-Cleanup-silent.log The log is too big to copy and paste into this topic. I can email or ftp it to you.

Thanks

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Obviously you need to identify what AVAST is flagging as an “Unreputable toolbar” by which I think that means the toolbar, if it exists, is of unknown repute rather than disreputable.

But whilst you wait for one of the AVAST gurus here to help sift through the log for the culprit you could be checking for anything obviously unwanted that you may have inadvertently installed with another program.

Have you looked at your Firefox toolbars in “View” and “Addons” > Extensions to see if anything has been added to Firefox you don’t want?

You could try using an uninstaller which has a specific option for removing browser toolbars. That will show you what is there if Firefox is not listing anything untoward and remove it should you so wish.

If there is an unwanted toolbar one of those toolbar uninstaller programs may be essential along with some additional manual cleaning too.

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Delete the log, run a new scan and attach the log to your next post here.

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Firefox is also flagging up addons and extensions that do not meet a certain standard, though Firefox tends to disable them.
Usually Avast tell you what program is undesirable. Do another scan to see what happens.

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Here is a copy of the log I was instructed to collect with the first go round.

Thanks

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Do you have (or had) BlogThis! installed ?

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Nope, never even heard of it before.

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bump

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It seems to be installed.
Could be hidden.

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Thanks for the help. From my research it looks like Blog This! is part of Windows Live Writer. I could see references to blogthis in the registry.

I had to run wlarp.exe in order to remove Windows Live Writer.

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There is an updated replacement for Windows Live Writer that works well for me:
Open Live Writer give it a try you might enjoy it as much as I do.
( https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19387.msg1401682#msg1401682 )