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Firefox randomly takes to Mcafee page

Charles Gregory
Charles Gregory
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Hello,

I am getting very annoyed because something has happen to my FireFox browser and I am not sure what. I thought it was maleware or a virus. I was using Windows native tools but it detected nothing. So I purchase BITDEFENDER to see if would catch something. Nothing. So I need some help in figuring out what going on because it happening only in Firfox and it happens on two different machines.

Here is what is happening. Just one example that just happen to me. I went to https://www.maizenbrew.com. Then I pick any item. Then when scrolling down the page without clicking on anything, it jumps me to this page:

https://mcafee-secured.b-cdn.net/J-48jh3-ns.html?cep=U_42OCAdnvBmtfzmYBruO9hBMHdYL0FEkCl-94QY8zfnamdZuFOCHjKrPhfXAA4MoNe2VJxA-7XYtPA2mU3k43MDI4KkSlD8In88LC2VELsYbBqxmXgM1HWoBkyd6tQOmIyPiS7kFMgZDXl31OuZ_cmomCdMdT3eCXlysbmCjgQrRjfebvbAFGAoyzSOQiUhaeKl5r5xHblz0pZPwXGTAlA0WJZ9hf2izImM1izYu1w3wgmb-XykdHpFmmqGmT75yzL0UqA0o3UuVmZqPYyNRlLgS7Qe4Mg8PI-9qDRMznsX3Y7ThWqP4PISiC6VZ1VmIb5ODc2kv7OVd25qkjMr3aUztQdN2RA1fJXOFZskshWV8xTIOdDWR4-DBu1J56qdqp1T3NO_OV_bKpIdBNrnj9Fp6AcPKhr0EP1vaxHkxm0VgShs57_iHCw9ZxNRejGXf1jjw2Ltae3rZogaaN9blMAONDASuDHqBO4p69r1nnk4jEwEE8G-T1crAyaQR2IACxIixU5MqxcDBQEXEynLM6HcFIUSDNaealuT6dUIQ5_Gw8qAy6HDTnbRW559wJoNpdG32c81-SWY_Ht3wn7HqpPQwn331VImwLKXPNY9Ou2Dwma_W-tSOEGDDHhwVa6bNtaN-vUnqQupkopiI2JHeLMFG4sSwgu0aWPSTGzYmstxBM86EIWkpxsOx6EpeITGhEg3Q0IauY7KgL5dpG-8XOq5MCAYTQJIoLLC_0Ge2vidG484RFTPXTi4tqP00XV90qzPm-J0LhhRoV-tFG4A5w&lptoken=1607747a2327267477bc

Why? Also it started doing this on other site like ENGADGET.com and GIZMODO.com. No matter what I have tried I can not get this behavior to stop and as I stated it happening on multiple machines. Please help because it extremely annoying.

I have never had Mcafee loaded on either computer system and I do not use it at all. I have check to see if was installed and there is not app to remove and my register on my computer system is clean. Hopefully this is enough detail to help me.

Hello, I am getting very annoyed because something has happen to my FireFox browser and I am not sure what. I thought it was maleware or a virus. I was using Windows native tools but it detected nothing. So I purchase BITDEFENDER to see if would catch something. Nothing. So I need some help in figuring out what going on because it happening only in Firfox and it happens on two different machines. Here is what is happening. Just one example that just happen to me. I went to https://www.maizenbrew.com. Then I pick any item. Then when scrolling down the page without clicking on anything, it jumps me to this page: https://mcafee-secured.b-cdn.net/J-48jh3-ns.html?cep=U_42OCAdnvBmtfzmYBruO9hBMHdYL0FEkCl-94QY8zfnamdZuFOCHjKrPhfXAA4MoNe2VJxA-7XYtPA2mU3k43MDI4KkSlD8In88LC2VELsYbBqxmXgM1HWoBkyd6tQOmIyPiS7kFMgZDXl31OuZ_cmomCdMdT3eCXlysbmCjgQrRjfebvbAFGAoyzSOQiUhaeKl5r5xHblz0pZPwXGTAlA0WJZ9hf2izImM1izYu1w3wgmb-XykdHpFmmqGmT75yzL0UqA0o3UuVmZqPYyNRlLgS7Qe4Mg8PI-9qDRMznsX3Y7ThWqP4PISiC6VZ1VmIb5ODc2kv7OVd25qkjMr3aUztQdN2RA1fJXOFZskshWV8xTIOdDWR4-DBu1J56qdqp1T3NO_OV_bKpIdBNrnj9Fp6AcPKhr0EP1vaxHkxm0VgShs57_iHCw9ZxNRejGXf1jjw2Ltae3rZogaaN9blMAONDASuDHqBO4p69r1nnk4jEwEE8G-T1crAyaQR2IACxIixU5MqxcDBQEXEynLM6HcFIUSDNaealuT6dUIQ5_Gw8qAy6HDTnbRW559wJoNpdG32c81-SWY_Ht3wn7HqpPQwn331VImwLKXPNY9Ou2Dwma_W-tSOEGDDHhwVa6bNtaN-vUnqQupkopiI2JHeLMFG4sSwgu0aWPSTGzYmstxBM86EIWkpxsOx6EpeITGhEg3Q0IauY7KgL5dpG-8XOq5MCAYTQJIoLLC_0Ge2vidG484RFTPXTi4tqP00XV90qzPm-J0LhhRoV-tFG4A5w&lptoken=1607747a2327267477bc Why? Also it started doing this on other site like ENGADGET.com and GIZMODO.com. No matter what I have tried I can not get this behavior to stop and as I stated it happening on multiple machines. Please help because it extremely annoying. I have never had Mcafee loaded on either computer system and I do not use it at all. I have check to see if was installed and there is not app to remove and my register on my computer system is clean. Hopefully this is enough detail to help me.
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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If you never had SiteAdvisor (later renamed WebAdvisor), then it definitely sounds like a scam ad.

Sometimes "malvertisers" figure out how to exploit ad network code to pop up windows or redirect pages.

I don't know any other short term defense than using an add-on which blocks some ads and other annoyances. For example: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/