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A website pops up from time to time about upgrading Adobe Flash Player, but it's not an Adobe website.

A website pops up from time to time about upgrading Adobe Flash Player, but it's not an Adobe website.

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Hi docs325!

You can set your preferences on Pop-ups in your settings.

Please find a very detailed guide on how to handle your pop-up issue here.

For the part of the article that's of interest to you, you need to scroll down a bit.

Regards JoKers

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. Whenever you get a message / popup that software / files need to be updated;

DO NOT USE ANY OF THE PROVIDED LINKS

While this may be a legitimate message, it could also be Malware or a Virus. Anytime you want or need to check for upgrades, go to the website of the True Owner of the program in question. For example, to check out Firefox, go to https://www.mozilla.org {web link}

You can report such a site at; Google Report Phishing Page {web link} which is the same when done while on site by going to Help > Report Web Forgery

Help us safeguard Mozilla’s trademarks by reporting misuse {web link}

For almost a year, an epidemic of Fake Update Notices have been popping up all over the place. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forum-response-i-found-fake-firefox-update


Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web Link} (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for a good ad / pop-up blocker.