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Searches are being rerouted through Yellowise. Tabs are opening that I didn't select. Any ideas?

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Computer seems like it has a virus, but Firefox seems to be most affected. Searches seem to get hijacked. When I try to select a result through google, I get rerouted to yellowise.com. When I tried to go on a website, another tab opened up with an Ad. I can't find anything on add-ons, recent downloads...

Computer seems like it has a virus, but Firefox seems to be most affected. Searches seem to get hijacked. When I try to select a result through google, I get rerouted to yellowise.com. When I tried to go on a website, another tab opened up with an Ad. I can't find anything on add-ons, recent downloads...

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Try a malware scan. [small advertisement]Personally recommend Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (it's only a scanner, not a full antivirus solution)small advertisement, but you're free to run any other scanner.

Izmjenjeno od strane ChrisvandenKieboom

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Thanks. I actually can't run Malwarebytes or AVG or Microsoft Scanner. So far, SpyBot seems to be working...

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Happened to me once before. But since this isn't an antivirus discussion board and only for Firefox, try another forum :')