search bar on start page will redirect you to porn sites whenever you click any link
The Firefox start page is set as my homepage. When I use the search bar, it appears to perform a legitimate Google Search. Any link I click on the results page then redirects me to random pages, including porn sites and survey sites. It has been doing this for several weeks and I thought it may have been a Virus. I have run complete system scans with McAffee but no virus was detected. I then re installed Firefox but I am having the same problem. Many thanks,
Charlie Duff
The Firefox start page is set as my homepage. When I use the search bar, it appears to perform a legitimate Google Search. Any link I click on the results page then redirects me to random pages, including porn sites and survey sites. It has been doing this for several weeks and I thought it may have been a Virus. I have run complete system scans with McAffee but no virus was detected. I then re installed Firefox but I am having the same problem.
Many thanks,
Charlie Duff
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to 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.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked