Popups are occurring INSIDE of the Firefox window
Are these pop-ins or slide-ins the fault of the web page? The site?
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Hey It is simple open that pop up and change the setting. It occurs due to some Fault in Web sides. Its Common
These are not common popups that can be stopped by "Block popup windows" under Content on the Tools Options tab.
These are INSIDE the window itself. The are timed, counting down from about 10 seconds before they can even be clicked off. They are major company ads, not spam type stuff.
They only occur on Firefox n my laptop, not on Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.
Your answers could be in better English too, please.
You can look at the Adblock Plus extension if you want to block content.
- Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
You need to subscribe to a Filter list (e.g. the EasyList).
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked