Firefox official looking pop up stating a update is required, installed ACceleratior and Instant Support on my PC, some kind of virus or malware?
When I opened Firefox browser on my PC, a official looking Firefox pop up appeared stating that a Firefox update was required, when I clicked to complete the update it installed PCAccelerator and Instant Support on my PC. Obviously these are both some kind of viruses or malware or whatever. This was very very sneaky, I never click on these pop ups but this looked absolutely like an official Mozilla Firefox update notification. WATCH OUT FOR THIS!!!!!!
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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 as you can see here for example) and by download from mozilla.org like say http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
There is no such thing as Firefox_update.exe or Firefox_patch.exe or such similar names of 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
virustotal always found these fake exe's to be trojans, viruses and such malware.