popup stating firefox nopt secure?

Does it still tell you that your current browser may not be safe ???

No Bob, it doesn’t say that anymore.

Thank you. :slight_smile:

Avast should moderate themselves in the first place so that these kinds of clearly dubious marketing tactics are not used on their customers. Thankfully members of this forum have made in impact in this particular case, but I think we can all agree that it should not have to take forum members to convince Avast how wrong their aggressive marketing tactics are in this case and others I might add hence user input should not have been necessary in the first place. This is a prime example as to my suggestions in the past how Avast actually hurts themselves as far as the approach they take in marketing since as you can see just in this thread alone several people have posted they are going elsewhere to get their virus protection. Some have been critical of my opinions in this regard however I think most if not all would agree that in this particular case and others as well it is clear that if we as Avast users who like most things about Avast actually care about the success of Avast the suggestions I’ve made on several occasions would actually be beneficial in sustaining the Avast user base in which has been my point all along.

Spuit elf :stuck_out_tongue: ( This is Dutch )

Greetz, Red.

Hi Rednose,

…and then this is always followed by “geeft modder”. :wink:
Our wonderful Dutch is such an adequate language sometimes. ;D

polonus

Indeed ;D

Greetz, Red.

There you go Red.

Thank you MartinZ. Now it is not misleading. I’ve been getting it in every VPS update for the past 2 days but I can deal with it since I am running free Avast.

The popup must be localized to certain areas.
I haven’t received it. :slight_smile: (Maybe I shouldn’t say anything.)

As you must know Bob, they come and go. I first got the original alert a few days back and we alerted the mods of the misleading text the advert had. I started to get the new popup yesterday. Hopefully 1 or 2 more days and it will go away to another area.

Thnx for posting the screenshot, my friend :slight_smile:

Greetz, Red.

The initial reporting was speculative or plain wrong, it was an already patched vulnerability. The exploit was an old and patched exploit, it just that people using the Tor Browser did not update their browsers. Law enforcement just reversed engineered old security patches, and that was it. It could happen to any browser including Chrome.

Tor Browser, (based on Firefox) back then did not have an automatic update based on privacy concerns. They released it through their website, but people did not update their browsers accordingly. On the other hand, you would think that people using Tor Browsers to do obviously illegal things like child pornography, and drugs would be on top of security.

@ Alievitan,
For your information, the Tor Cloud project as been discontinued:
https://cloud.torproject.org/

I believe Alievitan is referring to Tor using an old vulnerable old version 10 of Firefox when Firefox 17 was fully patched and safe at the time. https://blog.mozilla.org/jorendorff/2013/12/06/how-egotisticalgiraffe-was-fixed/

Tor Browser was updated to 4.5.1 on May 13th. Tor Browser 4.5.1 is based on Firefox ESR 31.7.0, which features important security updates to Firefox.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-451-released