When I shut down Firefox, I get redirected to a random site. Most times, it's an Arabic site. How do I stop this?
The sites I get redirected to are http://www.arabycelebs.com/ and http://www.shababnow.com/
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hello PaulFM, this sound like an issue with adware or malware already present on your system. please perform all these steps:
- reset firefox (this will keep your bookmarks and passwords)
- afterwards go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions and in case there are still extensions listed there, disable them.
- finally run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the free version of malwarebytes and adwcleaner to make sure that adware isn't present in other places of your system as well.
Did as suggested. Malware Bytes did find a couple of problems which I resolved. Even installed and ran CCleaner. Still get redirected to Arabic sites. I might resort to uninstalling Firefox, then reinstalling it. Hopefully I'll get a couple more suggestions before trying that.
How are you closing the browser?
Selecting the "X" in the upper right hand corner.
This may help;
BlockSite {web link} BlockSite is an extension, which automagically blocks websites of your choice. Additionally, this extension will disable all hyperlinks to these websites, by just displaying the link text without the clicking functionality.