Recent answers to URGENT UPDATE POSSIBLE HACK- HELP PLEASE!!https://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/11434632016-10-17T16:13:43-07:00FredMcD said
For the last five months, an epidemic of Fake Update Notices
have been popping up all 2016-10-17T16:13:43-07:00Jameshttps://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1143463#answer-927808<p><em>FredMcD <a href="#answer-927777" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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<blockquote>For the last five months, an epidemic of <strong>Fake Update Notices</strong>
have been popping up all over the place.
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update</a>
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<p>Well not fake update notices in general but just this particular "urgent Firefox update" one has been frequent.
</p>These sites use coded links so that we are not able to see exactly what you downloaded (the link onl2016-10-17T14:40:18-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1143463#answer-927788<p>These sites use coded links so that we are not able to see exactly what you downloaded (the link only works on your computer and only for a limited time). So unfortunately you're just going to have to do a full scrub-down with numerous cleaning tools (see Fred's link) and hopefully that will take care of it.
</p>You may have ad / mal-ware. Further information can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox issues caus2016-10-17T13:53:04-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1143463#answer-927780<p>You may have ad / mal-ware. Further information can be found in the <a href="/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware" rel="nofollow">Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware</a> article.
</p><p>Run most or all of the listed malware scanners. Each works differently. If one
program misses something, another may pick it up.
</p>Normally I wouldn't have clicked. For some reason, I went ahead and clicked it, not thinking, probab2016-10-17T12:57:17-07:00aurorastanley1980https://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1143463#answer-927778<p>Normally I wouldn't have clicked. For some reason, I went ahead and clicked it, not thinking, probably because it ticked me off that it redirected my job app to that page instead so I just clicked to get it over &amp; done &amp; get back to the application. So since I DID click it, how do I get it off my laptop?
</p>. Whenever you get a message / popup that
software / files need to be updated;
DO NOT USE ANY2016-10-17T12:48:31-07:00fredmcd-hotmailhttps://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1143463#answer-927777<p>. <strong>Whenever you get a message / popup that</strong>
<strong>software / files need to be updated;</strong>
</p><p> <u><strong>DO NOT USE ANY OF</strong></u>
<u><strong>THE PROVIDED LINKS</strong></u>
</p><p>While this may be a legitimate message, it could also be
<u><strong>Malware or a Virus</strong></u>.
Any time you want or need to check for upgrades,
go to the website of the <u><strong>True Owner</strong></u> of the program in question.
For example, to check out Firefox, go to <strong><a href="https://www.mozilla.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.mozilla.org</a></strong> {web link}
</p><p>You can report such a site at;
<strong><a href="http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/" rel="nofollow">Google Report Phishing Page</a></strong> {web link}
which is the same when done while on site by going to
<strong>Help &gt; Report Web Forgery</strong>
</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/legal/fraud-report/" rel="nofollow">Help us safeguard Mozilla’s trademarks by reporting misuse</a></strong> {web link}
</p><p>For the last five months, an epidemic of <strong>Fake Update Notices</strong>
have been popping up all over the place.
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update</a>
</p>I apologize- my first upload attempt didn't succeed, so here is the screenshot of the second screen:2016-10-17T12:46:48-07:00aurorastanley1980https://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1143463#answer-927776<p>I apologize- my first upload attempt didn't succeed, so here is the screenshot of the second screen:
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