I cannot stay on one particular web page without getting re-routed somewhere else.
I stupidly went to a site I should not have gone to last night, and downloaded a PDF. Now when I go to one particular page, I get re-routed to other pages, like for cooking sites and other nonsense. If I go to this page (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/) right after deleting all my history, cache, cookies, etc...it does allow me to actually stay on the page, BUT then these repeated boxes come up asking me if I want to stay on or leave the page.
This does not happen in Safari.
I'm not sure if this is a glitch or malware.
Thank you.
UPDATE: Thank you very much for your response. It turns out that the site had been attacked and was generating that horrible action.
Modified by VirginiaJ
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Adobe® Acrobat® Plug-in for Web Browsers, Version 10.1.4
- AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.16
- Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- iPhoto6
- RealPlayer Plugin
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
More Information
I have repeatedly deleted cache, cookies, history. I have also trashed all downloaded docs, including (I think) the downloaded PDF doc I am suspicious of.
I disabled the "Enable Java Script" box and that might have fixed it (the page was stable), but that is not the long-term solution I am after.
Update Firefox to 17.0.1. Update Firefox to the latest version
Then, Reset Firefox Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems