when i do a google search and click on the topic i want the firefox redirects me to a whole different series of advertizers, each and every time. how do i stop this, if it I cant stop this I will uninstall firefox. This is a pain and wastes my time.
Question when i do a google search and click on the topic i want the firefox redirects me to a whole different series of advertizers, each and every time. how do i stop this, if it I cant stop this I will uninstall firefox. This is a pain and wastes my time.
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when i do a google search and click on the topic i want the firefox redirects me to a whole different series of advertizers, each and every time. how do i stop this, if it I cant stop this I will uninstall firefox. This is a pain and wastes my time.
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
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