I'm surfing SF and a Firefox window pops up telling me I've selected to download an update. In the background there is a Firefox critical update page w/ a funky address.
I close both and go to Firefox options and select "check for update" and it's up to date.

Anyone else get this?

ETA: It looks like this and is a scam.
https://support.mozilla.org/en...-fake-firefox-update
I've never seen this while using Norton but now that I've upgraded to Win10 (finally) I've been relying on Windows Defender :/

I'll add I had two other tabs open in the background. They were probably the source.

I'd make sure you have a current backup.

I've had it come up on Yahoo News and a few other sites. I open task manager and shut everything down.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
I'd make sure you have a current backup.

Why?
Because I closed it?
I didn't get any download.

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Originally posted by Ackks:
I've had it come up on Yahoo News and a few other sites. I open task manager and shut everything down.

This sounds safer than the site I linked to suggesting clicking "cancel".
I ran Malwarebytes and it came back w/ 0 threats.

Firefox updates automatically. If you get that big orange screen that says there is and update available, close out of it and do not update. It is spam.

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Originally posted by dsiets:

quote:

Originally posted by smschulz:
I'd make sure you have a current backup.

Why?
Because I closed it?
I didn't get any download.

Why?? In case you fuck up and download the wrong thing. Good policy regardless of this situation.