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Firefox blocked by anti-virus related to www.googleapis.com/

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This morning, for the first time, my anti-virus Bitdefender, blocked sending a typical e-mail advising that the URL www.googleapis.com/ is an infected web resource. What should/can be done about that?

This morning, for the first time, my anti-virus Bitdefender, blocked sending a typical e-mail advising that the URL www.googleapis.com/ is an infected web resource. What should/can be done about that?
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You should contact Bitdefender if you have a question about their software.

The googleapis.com servers store a lot of different services and it is always possible that one of them is suspicious.

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Note that this specific issue isn't with Firefox, but is an issue with Thunderbird as you can see in the screenshot.

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Yes I realized after posting that I should have written Thunderbird, and felt that it would be obvious to anyone who cared, as it was to you. And I do understand that there are bad users of www.googleapis.com/. The question I have is how does that relate to using Thunderbird? BTW, a later attempt to send the e-mail that triggered the Bitdefender alert was successful, and I will communicate this to Bitdefender as you suggest.

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The googleapis.com site is contacted if you sync with Google Contacts, either through an add-on like TbSync or CardBook, or with the native CardDAV option.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1321916#answer-1384208