Ham N Egz
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WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
If a page pops up stating this on an Orange Backround
DO NOT DO NOT click on it
this is NOT an official FF upgrade it is a trojan/virus nasty thing
FF updates automatically
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Beepster
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/02 12:04:17
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Actually I have FF set to notify me of (but not install/download) updates.
When this happens it's just a little, innocuous "toast" style popup in the lower right corner of the program saying "Firefox Version X.X is available" or something like that.
I would certainly be wary of a big bold popup. Good to know though.
I will recommend that you add AdBlock+ and Noscript to your FF addons. Most of that crap worms it's way in through ads and whatnot. Those two addons have helped keep pretty much all of that type of gack away for almost a decade now. I don't think I've ever gotten a legit positive virus/malware/etc detection since I've been using them (touch wood... which is what "she" said... or so I've heard).
Anyhoo... good heads up...
and don't forget to put on yer internet rubbers, lads.
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/02 18:58:23
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/02 19:38:07
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Doodz! Doodz! DOODZ!!!
I totes getzit!!!
It's funnay becuz TROJAN is like a latex condome* brand!!!11
Just like the we call those high fallutin' doodz around here "BAKERS" becuz...
...
...nevermind.
*i shure wish i lived in one of those
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/02 19:39:48
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Beepster
It's funnay becuz TROJAN is like a latex condome* brand!!!11
*i shure wish i lived in one of those
 Here ya go!
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/02 19:49:15
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Wasn't it a condom joke that got the Smothers Brothers kicked off the air?
alt+prntscrn
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/02 21:55:30
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Beepster
Wasn't it a condom joke that got the Smothers Brothers kicked off the air?
alt+prntscrn
Nah, they talked about Pro Tools.
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/09 23:01:56
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How does the Trojan manifest itself? Firefox updated itself and I don't know if it was the real update or this trojan. I'm getting sections of screens stretched out over pages. AVG and Malware bytes have both come up clean
post edited by Kamikaze - 2016/10/09 23:24:02
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Ham N Egz
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/10 08:13:49
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Kamikaze
How does the Trojan manifest itself?
Firefox updated itself and I don't know if it was the real update or this trojan.
I'm getting sections of screens stretched out over pages.
AVG and Malware bytes have both come up clean
read this 
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/10 09:42:25
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It's not really answering my question. It's talking about the warning you not to do the update because its a Trojan, not what happens if you do do the update. What happens then. I saw Firefox was updating itself, at the weekend and since then, it's been a bit funky with lines of a screen stretching across pages. Maybe it was a proper update, but is buggy, maybe it was trojan and the symptoms. Perfect timing, This is what is happening. 
post edited by Kamikaze - 2016/10/10 10:04:34
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Ham N Egz
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/10 10:41:33
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Kamikaze
It's not really answering my question. It's talking about the warning you not to do the update because its a Trojan, not what happens if you do do the update. What happens then.
If it is downloaded it seems to be a number of things, A Cryptolocker, keystroke logger, browser hijack,, By default, Firefox is set to automatically update itself but you can always do a manual update. Here's how: - Click the menu button
 , click help  and select About Firefox. - The About Firefox window will open and Firefox will begin checking for updates and downloading them automatically.
So it seems your update may be safe but AFA your display issues did windows do an update also? you may have driver issues If your still concerned about infection did you run your AV and Spybot and Malwarebytes?
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/10 11:24:57
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I'm starting to think my Firefox is a legit update gone wrong. Installed Chrome and evreything seems fine, though I don't like it. It's my work mini laptop, not my music laptop. Malwarebytes and AVG have both come back clean. So I think I need to try a clean install of Fire fox in a few days, when I get a little space to do so.
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Ham N Egz
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/10 11:39:11
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Kamikaze
I'm starting to think my Firefox is a legit update gone wrong. Installed Chrome and evreything seems fine, though I don't like it. It's my work mini laptop, not my music laptop. Malwarebytes and AVG have both come back clean. So I think I need to try a clean install of Fire fox in a few days, when I get a little space to do so.
Glad your scans came back clean. Maybe post your screenshot over at the FF forum and see if anybody else had the same experience? They seem to be a helpful lot over there
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Re: WARNING Upgrade FireFox Now TROJAN!!! DONT
2016/10/10 13:59:00
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Kamikaze
It's not really answering my question. It's talking about the warning you not to do the update because its a Trojan, not what happens if you do do the update. What happens then.
I saw Firefox was updating itself, at the weekend and since then, it's been a bit funky with lines of a screen stretching across pages. Maybe it was a proper update, but is buggy, maybe it was trojan and the symptoms. Perfect timing, This is what is happening.
Looks like you've found the bar code add-on! 
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