I was watching my dad using his computer and when he clicked on firefox and the UAC permission box came up. I thought that this was unusual because a UAC warning doesnt usually come up. So when I stopped it and pressed firefox icon again it loaded up like normal. I did notice there was a new version 50 to be updated. So I pressed the update button and it downloaded but failed.
I'm wondering if this failed because I had just blocked it via UAC ?
So how do I unblock a program with UAC? or shall I just reboot the computer to see if it asks me again?
ok first question he using a Admin account or standard user account
what operating system is it
- right click on start menu
- select control panel
- select users account
- select change user account control
- take its down to never notify
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Scan with Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Please download
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and save it to your desktop.
- Install the progam and select update.
- Once updated, click the Settings tab, in the left panel choose Detctions & protection and tick Scan for rootkits.
- Click the Scan tab, choose Threat Scan is checked and click Scan Now.
- If threats are detected, click the Apply Actions button. You will now be prompted to reboot. Click Yes.
- Upon completion of the scan (or after the reboot), click the History tab.
- Click Application Logs and double-click the Scan Log.
- At the bottom click Export and choose Text file.
Save the file to your desktop and include its content in your next reply
Thanks for the reply mate.
I shut down the laptop and started up firefox again and no UAC pop-up happened. Then I went to update FF and it did.
I'm not sure why the pop-up happened. I did notice when I was looking over google searches that other people on different versions of FF had random UAC pop-up's.
I'll keep in mind your reply post though as its good info you posted.
Thanks for replying