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- I found a fake Firefox update We have received reports from many users who were interrupted in their browsing experience and who got redirected to a fake page pretending to provide an 'important', 'urgent' or 'critical' update.
I was playing a game and noticed out of the corner of my eye that a tab was open (that I did not open) on my second screen. It had an orange background with the Firefox logo with a prompt to download an update. The download file was titled firefox-patch.exe, and being distracted I thought nothing of it. I downloaded it and hit install. Right as I did so I happened to look at the address bar and noticed it was NOT from Firefox and my Kaspersky immediately went crazy. I had downloaded a crytolocker virus that locked all my files down. Luckily Kaspersky was able to contain and disinfect.
Since then I have seen that tab 3-4 times (I should have taken a screen shot, I didn't even think of it), I never open it, I just find it there when I sit down. I have run Malwarebytes, Kaspersky and a tdsskiller in which all show the system is clear. I have looked in my Control Panel add/delete Program list and can find nothing. I thought it might be a plug-in (popup blocker) that I recently installed and have since replaced. But this tab keeps trying to open again.
The weird thing is that I can't find the web addresses in my History folder, I don't see the file in my download history, Kaspersky shows where I ran scans that night but no report of the disinfection. Its like this thing disappeared.
This seems to be a Firefox thing, it doesn't open when I used Chrome (which I hate using) and the computer is on a fresh Windows install barely 3 months old.
TLDR; Tab keeps opening on it's own disguised as Mozilla page with a prompt for 'firefox-patch.exe which is actually a crytolocker virus. Kaspersky, Malwarebytes and tdsskiller all show system is clean. What do?
Firefox Troubleshooting Info:
- Version 47.0
- Build ID 20160604131506
- Extensions: Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon, Firefox Hello, Kaspersky Protection, Multi-process staged rollout, Pocket, RES, Updated Ad Blocker for Firefox 11+, Bing Search (disabled) and WMP Extension (disabled)
- edit: Windows 7 x64
*edit 2: I have a working knowledge of computers (gaming, etc.) but my technical knowledge doesn't go further beyond that.
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Firefox Patch Download Fake Videos
We have received reports from many users who were interrupted in their browsing experience and who got redirected to a fake page pretending to provide an 'important', 'urgent' or 'critical' update. Some people have also reported seeing ads prompting them to download a Firefox update or occurrences of fake Firefox requires a manual update pages that try to trick them into installing a malicious extension. These are scam tactics to trick you into installing malware!
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- 1What is a fake Firefox update notice?
To our knowledge, fake update notices are a form of 'malvertising'. Those fake notices get triggered by code contained in ads that are displayed on otherwise legitimate websites you are visiting and get spread through advertisement networks.
This is an example of what a fake Firefox update notice might look like. These are hosted on randomly generated and quickly changing domains:
Firefox has an automated background update mechanism which will never prompt you to manually download and execute a file, except in the case of a Heartbeat notification (see below). You can always manually check for Firefox updates - to learn how, see Update Firefox to the latest release.
Heartbeat notifications
If you start Firefox and see a notification bar with a Heartbeat icon, the message Your Firefox is critically out of date. An update is required to stay secure and an button, this is a legitimate Firefox update notice and you should update Firefox. To learn more about the 'Heartbeat' feature, see the article Rate your Firefox experience, surveys and out of date messages (Heartbeat) and this Mozilla Wiki page.
- Never click on these fake update notices.
- Never save or open/run unsolicited files!
- Install an ad-blocking add-on from addons.mozilla.org to avoid such kind of malvertising in the future.
- Report web forgeries to the Google Web Forgery site.
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- Run a malware scan on your computer to make sure your computer was not infected. (See Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware.)
- Avoid downloads from unreliable sources in the future.
- Use What happened to Tracking Protection? (enabled in Private Browsing by default).
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Fake updates have been spotted for other popular browsers. Although we cannot root out every bad actor on the web, we are continuing to improve Firefox's defenses against malware. Knowing how to recognize and report such frauds helps us keep the Internet open and safer.