firefox launches second web page with adverts
Using FF 3.6.3. When opening FF I have a second open page advertising products, the latest being Vodaphone. These are very annoying so how do I stop them?
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
== recently, after I had to reinstall FF
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A number of sites are using various means to get around Firefox's popup blocker. You can try extensions like adblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/ but sites are getting more and more savvy and may still get around it.
Do a malware check with a few malware scan programs. You need to use all programs because each detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page .......... See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked