Is FireFox Update file from www.sharecapitalgrabfiles.com legitimate update ?? Claims update to v40.0.3 am operating with v41.0.1.
I am operating with Firefox v41.0.1 and no updates are required per 'About Firefox' info box. I received a suspicious warning stating that I needed to update Firefox. Upon clicking 'OK', a screen appearing to be from Mozilla, but from 'pcchecker.update-club.net' appeared, claiming that I was currently using 'Firefox 39'. Clicking the 'Update Now' button results in the option to save 'Mozilla_Firefox_Setup.exe', a 910 kB binary file from 'www.sharecapitalgrabfiles.com'. Despite all of the screens looking legitimate (excepting the initial warning message), I neither saved nor ran the linked set-up file. But the URL's associated with the screens and 'update file' are suspicious.
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No, that does not appear to be a legitimate source of a Firefox update.
The best way to get a proper, official Firefox update is described in this article.
You do not mentioned where the warning came from, but just in case you have inadvertently picked up some malware, I recommend following the guidance listed here.
I hope this helps, but if not, please come back here and we can look into a different solution for you.
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الحل المُختار
Hi
No, that does not appear to be a legitimate source of a Firefox update.
The best way to get a proper, official Firefox update is described in this article.
You do not mentioned where the warning came from, but just in case you have inadvertently picked up some malware, I recommend following the guidance listed here.
I hope this helps, but if not, please come back here and we can look into a different solution for you.
Thank you...I've sent a Fraud Report to Mozilla, as well...
All official Firefox builds and updates comes from a *.mozilla.org url pretty much. Also updates are done in desktop Firefox itself and not by a .exe file, more so when Firefox is not just for Windows but also Mac OSX and Linux.
This was a random site preying on inexperienced Windows users.
Thank you...