I noticed something strange happened while running a scan with Malwarebytes about an hour ago. It flagged ten instances of pup.optional.browserhack, which I promptly quarantined and deleted. Since my last scan, I also removed anything I had downloaded just to be safe. After running another scan, I got hit with another pup report from the same location: Appdata/local/microsoft/edge/user data/default/preferences, specifically in the default/sync data/leveldb folder. I rarely use Microsoft Edge, and I found that it updated today. I'm not really tech-savvy, so I'm wondering if this is a false positive. The files get deleted from quarantine and don't return, but I'm anxious about this; I need to know if it's truly gone for good before I can relax.
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Hey! It looks like what you’re dealing with is indeed a false positive (FP). Chris from Malwarebytes has mentioned that they’ve fixed this issue, so no need to worry too much. Since you've cleared out your quarantine folder, you should be all set now without any more alerts from those files.
Thanks for clarifying that! So, I can just trust that everything's good now?