![]() ![]() “Somehow the rogue guys couldn’t decide if it’s going to be Firefox or Flash Player… so it became a little bit of both. The page is similar to that page that instantaneously appears right after you update your Firefox browser? “There is a message telling the user than even if their Firefox got updated, their Adobe Flash Player isn’t. Now, it comes as the Firefox “Just Updated” page. I was not able to install Firefox 4.o. “It seems that rogue peddlers have gotten tired of their old tricks in pushing rogueware into the user’s system.” Kick a browser while they are down! The Fake Mozilla update downloads the version of the Security Tool Malware. ![]() Today F-secure has alerted its users of a Fake AV (Ransom-Ware) attack that mimics a Firefox 3.6.7 update! The Cyber Criminals are taking advantage of the Firefox bug to unleash their malware! Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.12 and Firefox 3.5.15 to patch the vulnerability! The exploit was successful on Firefox versions 3.5 and 3.6, according to Norman. '''On October 26, 2010, Malicious hackers were exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Firefox browser to launch drive-by download attacks against visitors to the Nobel Peace Prize website.Īccording to Norman ASA, Firefox users who surfed to the site were silently infected with a Windows Trojan that gives the attacker complete control of the machine, talk about command and control in action. '''The safest escape from the situation is to clear system memory completely by shutting down the Windows session and simply restarting. ![]() '''With either variety of bogus message, under no circumstances click on the buttons "Save File" or "Cancel", and do not even click on the small "X" in the upper right of the popup box. The website source of the message varies widely, but identifying the source website is not that important, since the website name is randomly-generated and/or the malware is being passed around to many malware hackers. In my case, the originating website (a weather website) is known to be legitimate, and for what it is worth, I plan to notify that website's administrators of the problem.Īs forum moderator "'''James'''" already has commented (dozens of times), this bogus message has been in circulation for several weeks. Since advertisers pay the bills and keep content free to visitors, many websites are reluctant to make an issue with advertisers to police their advertisements more carefully. The malware code behind the bogus messages is not part of the "infected" website, itself, but enters through affiliated, third-party advertisements posted around website content. The safest escape from the situation is to clear system memory completely by shutting down the Windows session and simply restarting. Conceivably, that would allow malware to write itself to your hard drive. With either variety of bogus message, under no circumstances click on the buttons "Save File" or "Cancel", and do not even click on the small "X" in the upper right of the popup box.Īlthough the message is temporarily resident in system memory, it is still no threat unless you click on any of the message buttons. That bogus system message popup is actually more deceptive, because it has no signature flaming orange background and Firefox logo. Lately, however, I have seen the message arrive with only what appears to be a system-generated popup message titled, "Opening firefox-patch.js" (also attached below). ![]() In contrast, the bogus update message usually arrives with a flaming orange full screen, with Firefox logo in its center, as in the attachment below. Your legitimate updates arrive by a different method. Since you removed them while they're required for Firefox to function, I recommend to re-install Firefox again: clean reinstall. crashreporter.exe also is a part of Firefox. Your first clue the message is bogus is that Mozilla does not update Firefox in this fashion. 3/4/11, 8:09 PM more options Chosen Solution Norton not acceting plugin-container is a false positive ( bug 564389 ). I suspect.malware?.something badĪs forum moderator " James" already has commented (dozens of times), this bogus message has been in circulation for several weeks. I see this question posted previously but never answered. ![]()
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