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what is this virus that is causing my friend's Firefox to only go to download other browsers? It won't navigate anywhere but sites that offer browser downloads?

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AnonymousUser
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Start up Firefox and it automatically goes to a variety of sites offering browsers. Its a worm of some sort that has infected the Firefox exe or a virus pretending to be Firefox? Also affects IE.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== last night

Start up Firefox and it automatically goes to a variety of sites offering browsers. Its a worm of some sort that has infected the Firefox exe or a virus pretending to be Firefox? Also affects IE. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == last night

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Moses
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Your issue may be caused by Malware. You can run and update the following free anti virus software:

1. Malwarebytes (Free version) - http://www.malwarebytes.org

2. Spybot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org

3.Spyware Terminator - http://www.spywareterminator.com

In addition, there are a number of forums you can use to help get rid of your infection. These include: