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Everytime I go to a different site, an annoying popup appears. How do I get rid of it?

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Whenever I go onto live.com, verizon or most sites, I get an annoying popup with either Mozilla telling me it's a scam or that I have won something. How do I get rid of this?

Whenever I go onto live.com, verizon or most sites, I get an annoying popup with either Mozilla telling me it's a scam or that I have won something. How do I get rid of this?

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Install, update, and run these programs in this order. (Not all programs detect the same Malware.) They are all free for personal use, but some have limited functionality in the "free mode" - but those are features you really don't need to find and remove the problem that you have.
Note: If your Malware infection is bad enough and you are mis-directed to URL's other than what is posted, you may have to use a different PC to download these programs and use a USB stick to transfer them to the afflicted PC.


Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
SuperAntispyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/
AdAware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Windows Defender: Home Page - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/prod.../default.mspx

If these don't find it or can't clear it, post in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php
http://forum.aumha.org/
http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/
http://bleepingcomputer.com

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That's fine if you want to blindly trust anybody that offers free crap. Firefox was working fine except for a problem with the plugin container. Which I thought was being dealt with by a very nice person (on the live chat) until it was disconnected abruptly. I haven't been able to get back on there since. But, hell it's only been three weeks.