When I'm using Chrome to look at SimHQ i keep getting an urgent update notice. Is it legit?

Go to Chrome.google.com and install the latest version from there. If it goes away, then it was.

Firefox is the better browser. Never see them using it.

I got a fake pop-up yesterday pushing hard for me to update
my flash on a machine at work which was already up-to-date.
The pop-up appeared after an untypical cookie blizzard on
a science news website, and it had a fake window (whose contents
I forget), which had a close x-button in the upper right
corner which was clearly part of a jpeg image which comprised
the whole window, and was non-functional. The thing then
started a download which I noted was not from the Adobe
website. It didn't seem able to launch itself, the download
manager intercepted and asked where to save, I let it write
to a folder, then inspected its properties. I've forgotten the
website it came from (that shows in the download manager) but
the properties said it was an executable zip made by Inno
(a free executable zip making package) and had the name
something like pacheseno v3.7 - after looking through it,
and determining that it no doubt would have done something
nasty if I'd let it run, i deleted it, so I don't remember
the exact spelling, but google kept suggesting pokemon and
pachinko when i tried a search for it. I actually got a
hit for it on a malware patrol site, it seemsit was brand
new, no one had determined what nastiness it generates yet.

If you're on windows or OSX I remember there's an update check on the "about" section of google chrome.
If on any linux distro, the system update should be updating chrome from the sources.list.d folder entry.
Either way, there are safer ways to update and verify your browser.

On the note of dangerous files. TWICE I've visited SimHQ and had system warnings about files (to be downloaded) asking for permission. I should've saved the screenshot but I was so busy both cases that I just let the system prevent it.

I'm no grammar Nazi by a long shot, but what the heck do you have against paragraphs?

I have gotten that pop up 4 times. Each time a different address. Smells fake as hell to me.

I checked with Chrome and have the current version, so i'll just continue to close the window if it shows again.
thanks for the responses.

I had one pop-up just viewing this thread. Must be a scam. Shows as as https site, but not secure.

Keep blowing them away coasty.

I just
want to
know how
he alone
has different
margins from
everyone else.
If they're
not placed
there by
the system,
why the
compulsive
carriage returns
long before
necessary?



The Jedi Master

No soup for any of us.

I'm not the only one. I just post in another forum where there
are lots of images posted, and text ends up stretching across
the page if you don't actively format it. With a widescreen
monitor, that is really annoying, especially after decades of
reading 80 character text. So I format to a comfortable length,
by habit, hitting return when the line seems long enough to be
read comfortably.

And I usually use paragraphs, but the content of the previous
post seemed to be all one paragraph; it only had like six sentences,
which I dashed off in one go. I suppose I could have divided it
if I'd noticed how long it was getting.