Firefox malware!

z1000000

Hi

A quick warning for Firefox users.

I was online last night and I got a Mozilla warning and then the
page pretended to scan firefox before telling me I had problems.
Then it offered to download something to fix it.

Of course it was a scam.

I'm not a novice but I have to say it was very professional and convincing. What gave the game away for me is I run Linux and a windows.exe file won't work. But the thing was right in that I was running Firefox and that made it very convincing.

I'm sure many users would have been taken in, so watch out for this type of scam.

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busenbust

Were u on a particular website ??

fiddiwebb

Tsk....shakes head...don't know why people use Firefox, far safer using IE8..........snigger.........:rotfl:;)

Chris55_2

This could be one of two things:

There's a current active exploit out there for Firefox targeting XP (although if it checks not Vista or Windows 7 then Linux might trigger it - see article)
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/10/nobel-peace-prize-site-serves-firefox-0day/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29

Secondly there was an attempt to impersonate the "Bad Site" warning screen, and to pretend to offer a Flash Update impersonating the "new Version of Firefox loaded" screen.

Sill, if you run Firefox you should be running No-Script!!! (I certainly am),