[ARC5] Possible attack via FireFox & Yahoo Groups

[Buckley]

Richard, my own view is that YOU have been hacked by downloading a false 
message from Firefox.

I have been warned against this as they should be automatice downloads, 
and anything else is probably false.
Yes I have been "CAUGHT" AND NOW RESIST ANYTHING REMOTELY SUSPICIOUS.

i USE aVAST ANTI VIRUS FREE  and over two days have had a remarkable 
number of mailings from it saying WARNING VIRUS!

SO, again, you take your pick.

Mike B




On 09/04/2015 23:25, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> Open Help in the bar at the top.  Then click on "About Firefox" it 
> will tell you which version you are running and automatically check 
> for updates.  Current version is 37.0.1
>
> On 4/9/2015 2:02 PM, Leslie Smith wrote:
>>    G'day list-subscribers,
>>      The following observation is based on my suspicion only.
>>
>>    (1) I use Firefox running on Windows XP.  I subscribe to Yahoo 
>> groups.
>>    (2) Recently was advised to update my version of Firefox - I did 
>> that.
>>    (3) This AM I used Yahoo, and found frequent messages saying "this 
>> (or
>>    that) is out of date.
>>    (4) I noticed that the "close" function (box marked "X" at the top
>>    right) in these messages did NOT change the direction address for the
>>    out-of-date 'pop-up'.
>>    (5) I suspect "Yahoo" has been hacked and is attracting false "out of
>>    date messages".
>>
>>    All this is suspicion, but if I'm correct it may save others a lot of
>>    trouble.
>>    If I'm wrong, then I'm just a goose, posting a message with incorrect
>>    info.
>>       Take your pick.
>>
>>    73 de Les Smith
>>    vk2bcu at operamail.com
>>
>



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