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What keeps hijacking my Firefox in several different ways and what can I do about it?

majnuns
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I would like to know who/what/how hijacks my homepage and changes it into something I don't want? It was just changed to Roboform, which is an add-on that I have but it has never hijacked me before and I don't think Roboform did it. 

I just recently "restored" my Firefox because all sorts of ?malware? were hijacking me and creating new tabs that wanted me to download various things.  I used my IE8 for a while researching my Firefox issue and running 3 different virus/malware removal programs.  After everything looked good there I added back my Roboform to the "restored" firefox and everything was good until now.

I see I still have Adobe add-ons. I have been very suspicious of Adobe, Java and Google. I still have some unwanted additions that Google downloaded that I can't seem to get rid of even when I do an uninstall. OTshot is one of them. Since so many applications require Java and Adobe, I would also like to know if there is a way to use any of them without running the strong risk of malware? 

It is interesting to me that IE8 didn't have any problems with the malware before I removed it.   IE8 has lots of other problems though and IE9 never upgrade successfully, which is why I now use Firefox.

Thanks

I would like to know who/what/how hijacks my homepage and changes it into something I don't want? It was just changed to Roboform, which is an add-on that I have but it has never hijacked me before and I don't think Roboform did it. I just recently "restored" my Firefox because all sorts of ?malware? were hijacking me and creating new tabs that wanted me to download various things. I used my IE8 for a while researching my Firefox issue and running 3 different virus/malware removal programs. After everything looked good there I added back my Roboform to the "restored" firefox and everything was good until now. I see I still have Adobe add-ons. I have been very suspicious of Adobe, Java and Google. I still have some unwanted additions that Google downloaded that I can't seem to get rid of even when I do an uninstall. OTshot is one of them. Since so many applications require Java and Adobe, I would also like to know if there is a way to use any of them without running the strong risk of malware? It is interesting to me that IE8 didn't have any problems with the malware before I removed it. IE8 has lots of other problems though and IE9 never upgrade successfully, which is why I now use Firefox. Thanks

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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When add-ons upgrade, they often open a page to tell you about their new features, but this should be in addition to your home page, in a separate tab. This is designed to be a one-time event, and you won't find that page listed when you check your home page setting in the Options dialog. Does that sounds consistent with what happened?

Some users got Otshot (Hotshot) last year when installing an unofficial distribution of Firefox. If you see that, you should clean it out. See: when i installed firefox i also got something called Otshot. it's not in my directory of programs. how do i uninstall it?.