when i turn on firefox i get taken to a new page that is spam how do I stop it
a second page pops up with spam every time I open Firefox.. what can I do to stop it. I've tried many different cleaning and virus programs to fix this but nothing seems to work can you help me?
a second page pops up with spam every time I open Firefox.. what can I do to stop it. I've tried many different cleaning and virus programs to fix this but nothing seems to work can you help me?
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked