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Critical upate not verified what to do

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wydiva
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A full page opened up while I was on Firefox saying Critical update download. I saved it but when I went to open it to download another box opened stating this download was not verified and publisher not not known. So I was afraid to use it. How can I tell if this is truly Foxfire. It is also an executive file.

A full page opened up while I was on Firefox saying Critical update download. I saved it but when I went to open it to download another box opened stating this download was not verified and publisher not not known. So I was afraid to use it. How can I tell if this is truly Foxfire. It is also an executive file.

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Not from Mozilla, the developer of Firefox. Firefox updates aren't delivered in that manner.

See this support article for further information about that type of scam. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update

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the-edmeister
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Not from Mozilla, the developer of Firefox. Firefox updates aren't delivered in that manner.

See this support article for further information about that type of scam. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update

James
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wydiva said

How can I tell if this is truly Foxfire. It is also an executive file.

Firefox rather does updates internally. Was the file a firefox-patch.js or a .exe