Firefox hijacked to various websites (mostly facebook games and such but others too) at random times.
I'll be on a site and it will suddenly redirect to another site. This can happen at any time, sometimes as soon as a window opens, sometimes the window can be open for considerable time before it happens or it may not happen at all. It does not have any relationship to what site I am on (The same site might redirect immediately one time and not for an hour the next). I can always use the back browser button to get back to the original website. About 75% of the time this happens I end up on a Facebook login page and when I go back I see the original redirect went to some Facebook game/dating/or some such site, none of which I have ever used. I do have Facebook but I do nothing on it except go my wall to see pics and posts of my family (5 'friends'). I have never even posted a comment. The other 20% of the time it goes to various sites like surveys, support your vet.org, or ones with just random numbers and letters. In regards to the "This happened" question that follows I often have 3 to 5 windows open at a time and this will happen 20 or 30 times within a 4 hour window. I have tried both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome since this started and this has not affected either of them. I even tried running each simultaneously with Firefox and they held steady while the Firefox pages were being hijacked.
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Hi mha007, I ran Firefox for 2 days in 'safe' mode with no redirects, then 2 more days running normal with no redirects so the problem seems to be solved. I had run RogueKiller so I assume it must have eliminated whatever maleware was causing the issue. Thank you for your assistance.
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-> Clear Cookies & Cache
-> Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache.
- Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
- Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
- Press "Cmd + Shift + R" (MAC)
-> Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems
Check and tell if its working.
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Thank you for your assistance mha007.
After all of the above was done Firefox ran for several hours before a redirect happened and it has only happened twice in two days but unfortunately it is still happening.
-> Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems
Check and tell if its working.
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Hi mha007, I ran Firefox for 2 days in 'safe' mode with no redirects, then 2 more days running normal with no redirects so the problem seems to be solved. I had run RogueKiller so I assume it must have eliminated whatever maleware was causing the issue. Thank you for your assistance.
Glad to see its working.
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