I had a "update your Firefox browser last" page appear. This is for real or a scam?

I just got a page appear - ' you run Firefox 25 - it is recommended that you update immediately "etc. with a popup to click. Its URL is (I think) 'update - browser.org ' It smelled fishy. Is it?
Unfortunately I killed him before more information.

Hello tcarleton, yes that much sounds like a tactic of scam that tries to trick you into installing malicious software, so don't download or run this kind of stuff! Firefox 25.0.1 is the latest version of firefox generally published at the moment, 26 firefox will be released over the next week. updates are managed automatically by firefox, so you don't have to download anything (you can run a check of updates of firefox > help > about firefox).

You can also run a full scan of your system with software security already in place and the various tools like the free version of malwarebytes, adwcleaner & kaspersky security scan to make sure there isn't already a kind of active malware on your system that triggers these false alerts.

Fix Firefox problems caused by malicious software

in case you come across such a message, again, you could report the site to https://www.mozilla.org/legal/fraud-report/

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