No it is not legit. The fake updates exe can install things like trojans, viruses or unwanted software based on past reports.
Firefox-patch.js Pop-up is downloaded by advertising extension installed on most utilized browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and even Safari. When you found your PCs are choked by different ads, for example, banner ads, pop-up ads, in-text ads, video ads, sound ads, etc., you could conjecture. Firefox-patch.js is able infected both Windows OS and Mac OS, thus our lab worked out different solutions for each system. Please read the the First Section if you are a Windows OS user; read the Second Section if your a Mac OS user.
The desktop Firefox is not just for Windows as it is for Mac OSX and Linux also so .exe would not be an effective way to send out Firefox updates. The updates are done internally in Firefox with a .mar file or by download from mozilla.org like say www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
Even if Mozilla were to use .exe for Firefox updates on Windows, they would be serving them from a *.mozilla.org url and not from random websites with weird names.
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Mozilla Firefox Patch Download
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For bugs in Firefox Desktop, the Mozilla Foundation's web browser. For Firefox user interface issues in menus, bookmarks, location bar, and preferences. Many Firefox bugs will either be filed here or in the Core product. Bugs for developer tools (F12) should be filed in the DevTools product. (more info)
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1342300
3 years ago
3 years ago
People
(Reporter: weissa, Unassigned)
51 Branch
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Firefox Tracking Flags
(Not tracked)
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Firefox Popups Enable
Posted image Firefox Critical Update.jpg — Details
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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