"Need patch immediately" comes up, afraid cause No mozilla in URL
I have had a "Firefox patch needed immediately" come up a couple of times. It takes up the full screen, The Firefox symbol is in the center and a download button is is there to click on. I have been afraid to click on it because the URL has neither Firefox or Mozilla in it. I can not find anything to tell me on your help site if this is a true Firefox download. Please help.
Pamela Waterman
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hi pamela, unfortunately this is a scam tactic that is trying to trick you into installing malware, so don't download or execute this kind of stuff! only download firefox from its official location at mozilla.org - in addition updates are handled automatically by firefox so you don't have to download anything (you can initiate a check for updates in the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > about firefox).
in case this is caused by rogue advertisements on legitimate websites, you could install an adblocking extension in firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
you might also want to run a full scan of your system with the security software already in place and different tools like the free version of malwarebytes, adwcleaner & kaspersky security scan in order to make sure that there isn't already some sort of malware active on your system that triggers these false alerts.
Watermelon10 said
I can not find anything to tell me on your help site if this is a true Firefox download. Please help.
Downloads of anything Firefox related will be at a *mozilla.org url or will redirect to a *.mozilla.org url. For example https://wiki.mozilla.org/Over_100_domains
Watermelon10 said
I have had a "Firefox patch needed immediately" come up a couple of times.
Mozilla doesn't "patch" Firefox! Firefox receives updates via major version updates every 6 weeks on a posted schedule, and "emergency" updates that can't wait until the next schedules update minor version update; as with a version such as Firefox 47.0.1 .