Thanks, I feel better now. But what's this "en-us.www" stuff?
Chuck Norcutt
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> You can read the url backwards to see the hierarchy/ownership. Not a spoof.
> 3.5 had a security hole and 3.5.1 was quickly issued.
> Jez
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This morning I got an automatic update to Firefox 3.1 (whatever) and was
>> later prompted to update to 3.5 for security reasons. I decided to do
>> so but as the download was running I noticed the link was
>> http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.1/whatsnew/
>>
>> I had never previously seen this "en-us.www" structure and was concerned
>> it was a spoof of some sort. So I killed the download, went to
>> mozilla.org, was redirected to mozilla.com and finally to a download at
>> <
>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5.1&os=win&lang=en-US
>> and I downloaded and installed from there.
>>
>> So, is the first link valid or a spoof of some sort?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chuck Norcutt
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