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I received an email to update Firefox and when trying to upload my McAfee security said it was a trojan and stopped upload

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I received an email saying to use the link to update Firefox, on doing this my McAfee security said it was a trojan and stopped the upload. I deleted the email but I have just received another on. Is ther an email address I can send it to so you can check it out.

I received an email saying to use the link to update Firefox, on doing this my McAfee security said it was a trojan and stopped the upload. I deleted the email but I have just received another on. Is ther an email address I can send it to so you can check it out.

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Mozilla doesn't send email about updating Firefox from a link in the email. Someone is trying to induce you to install Malware or a virus on your PC under the guise of a Firefox update.

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rhoscar
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I have received a second email

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Mozilla doesn't send email about updating Firefox from a link in the email. Someone is trying to induce you to install Malware or a virus on your PC under the guise of a Firefox update.

rhoscar
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Thanks for your answer. I thought I could forward it to Firefox so that they could find out who was doing this.