MozBackup Question: Safe ?

[Bob]

Hello,

Using Thunderbird for my eMails.
Running W10

Wanted to do a backup using MozBackup.

My anti virus program, Bit Defender, blocked it.
Thinks it found various viruses, randsomeware, etc.
Msg. is a "maybe" though.

Have used MozBackup before a year or so ago on a W7 PC. No problems then.

Think it is safe to use now ?

Thanks,
Bob

[Paul]

It's a third party tool. You use the normal
safety rules you use for all your other
downloaded applications. If BitDefender blocked
it, there has to be a reason. The function MozBackup
performs is so simple... it should not be blocked.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/MozBackup

It's relatively clean. Only one heuristic detection.
Perhaps when it "touches" a prefs.js it gets a bad name.
It maybe seeing it reading AppData gave it a bad name.

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6ae2e8b12ad97c26691c7c2f70ab310d25a11d11d8f021a3bd47e6ff878e6677/analysis/

MozBackup.exe <---- does the backup
DelZip190.dll <---- ZIPs the profile

The delzip might be from here.

http://www.delphizip.org/192/v192.html

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When I back up my profile, I just do it manually.

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The eternal-september.support is for questions
concerning the Eternal September news server.
It's not intended as a substitute for one
of the mozilla.* groups or a windows group.

Your mail would also get backed up, if you
do regular disk-level backups of the computer.
I hope you are doing that, for the added safety
it brings.

Win10 has "File History", which can be used to
backup selected items to a separate drive, on
a scheduled basis. This would be separate from
the whole-disk backups you should be running.
And proper whole-disk backup software, has
random-access "viewer" software, for selecting
just a single folder for restoration or copying.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/55671-file-history-back-up-files-folders-windows-10-a.html

Paul