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My Firefox randomly opens other tabs, how do i stop this?

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Since a while ago my Firefox browser randomly opens other site every now and then. First it was only Forge of Empires website but today i had a website for dating japanese girls or something like that. I already ran a virus scan and Malware scan but nothing showed up.

Any ideas how i can get rid of this?

Since a while ago my Firefox browser randomly opens other site every now and then. First it was only Forge of Empires website but today i had a website for dating japanese girls or something like that. I already ran a virus scan and Malware scan but nothing showed up. Any ideas how i can get rid of this?

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Note that your System Details List shows that you have a user.js file in the profile folder to initialize some prefs on each start of Firefox.

The user.js file is only present if you or other software has created it, so normally it wouldn't be there. You may want to check its content with a plain text editor if you didn't create this file yourself.

The user.js file is read each time you start Firefox and initializes preferences to the value specified in this file, so involved preferences can only be changed temporarily for the current session.

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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please 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.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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