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Beware fake “patches” for Firefox

Posted on October 2, 2017 at 10:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Just got an email from Q, warning that he saw this fake update notice in the wild:

From the Firefox site:

To our knowledge those 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… they are hosted on randomly generated and quickly changing domains

Other fake updates, Firefox

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