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[Solved] - "Ant Videos" directory keeps appearing in my Downloads directory. - kdemeoz - 3rd January 2017
Has there ever been a weirder-sounding topic posted in these forums?
However i'm serious - this really does keep happening. Randomly, several times over the past several weeks, i have found this strange directory created in my Downloads directory. It's always empty. As soon as i find it i delete it, but sooner or later it comes back again (i'm not talking minutes later, it might be hours, days or maybe even weeks later]. I've just done a quick online search, but [unsurprisingly] nothing intelligible was found.I don't even know where to begin to trouble-shoot this oddity. If this was Windows not Linux i'd begin to suspect i'd picked up some malware that was doing this. Any ideas pls?
RE: "Ant Videos" directory keeps appearing in my downloads directory. - AJSlye - 3rd January 2017
Just remove the "Ant video downloader" plugin from Firefox, this should solve your issue.
RE: "Ant Videos" directory keeps appearing in my Downloads directory. - kdemeoz - 3rd January 2017
Haha oh dear me that's so funny! Thank you -- i can't believe that it is solved, & so easily. I hardly ever use FF, but for the past few weeks have been randomly launching it whilst troubleshooting something. As i'd never heard of that FF extension [not plugin, actually] due to my unfamiliarity with FF, i'd never in a million years have thought of that as the culprit / solution. I almost didn't even bother making this topic, as i imagined nobody would know. Phew.
RE: [Solved] - "Ant Videos" directory keeps appearing in my Downloads directory. - AJSlye - 3rd January 2017
Plugins, extensions, services, whatever, they are all just an Add-on.
In any case, I'm glad I was able to help.