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porn sites keep opening when I am on mozilla/firefox even when it is off

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I have a Mac, I need firefox for my Univ of Cincinnati school blackboard account. On Sunday I downloaded what I thought was a baseball tournament schedule and it sent me to a porn site. Every 5 minutes or so a new and sometimes different porn site opens in a new window, not a pop up. I have to have this for school and it is so embarrassing to be sitting in class and "gay porn' pops up or spank your momma. Please help

I have a Mac, I need firefox for my Univ of Cincinnati school blackboard account. On Sunday I downloaded what I thought was a baseball tournament schedule and it sent me to a porn site. Every 5 minutes or so a new and sometimes different porn site opens in a new window, not a pop up. I have to have this for school and it is so embarrassing to be sitting in class and "gay porn' pops up or spank your momma. Please help

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Xircal
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You may have inadvertently installed Mac Defender which is a virus targeting Mac users. Instructions on the Apple site here on how to remove it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4650