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when i visited a web page suddenly firefox refresh itself the page and i saw an advertisment

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when i visited a web page suddenly the web page refresh itself and i shows an advertisment or other times at the top of the web page there is suddenly a border come out without a reason and it shows an advertisment

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when i visited a web page suddenly the web page refresh itself and i shows an advertisment or other times at the top of the web page there is suddenly a border come out without a reason and it shows an advertisment == This happened == Every time Firefox opened

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Do a malware check with a few malware scan programs. You need to use all programs because each detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page .......... See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked