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got a red page notice telling me i had to download a patch for firefox is this true never seen this before

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i was on facebook playing a game all of a sudden firefox closed i got a red page saying to download a patch i hit save when it went to save and came here to find out what was up with all the problems i have had do not need any new ones

i was on facebook playing a game all of a sudden firefox closed i got a red page saying to download a patch i hit save when it went to save and came here to find out what was up with all the problems i have had do not need any new ones

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i did not do anything with it but save it but then i decided to delete it in case it was some kind of fake site or link thank you i did not think it was from firefox and i did report the link to something i found it was on mozilla support site it was to report fake or fraud links

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. Whenever you get a message / popup that software / files need to be updated;

DO NOT USE ANY OF THE PROVIDED LINKS

While this may be a legitimate message, it could also be Malware or a Virus. Any time you want or need to check for upgrades, go to the website of the True Owner of the program in question. For example, to check out Firefox, go to https://www.mozilla.org {web link}

You can also report such a site at; Google Report Phishing Page {web link} which is the same when done while on site by going to Help > Report Web Forgery

Help us safeguard Mozilla’s trademarks by reporting misuse {web link}

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To answer the question.

Firefox 47.0 is the current Release.

Firefox updates whether for Windows, Mac OSX or Linux are done internally in Firefox itself (with a .mar file) and by download from mozilla.org like say www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/

There is no such thing as Firefox_update.exe or Firefox_patches.exe and these are always from random sites as scammers have been using this tactic in last few years to try and trick inexperienced Windows and or Firefox users into downloading and infecting their Windows if they run the said .exe

I use Linux and have downloaded a number of these fake Firefox updates .exe's over a few years and uploaded to virustotal and they were always found to be trojans, virus and such malware.

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i did not do anything with it but save it but then i decided to delete it in case it was some kind of fake site or link thank you i did not think it was from firefox and i did report the link to something i found it was on mozilla support site it was to report fake or fraud links