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When I do a search, and I get to a website...I get an advertisement for that website. I never had that before. My laptop has Mozilla Firefox, and it does not do that.

When I do a search, and I get to a website...I get an advertisement for that website. I never had that before. My laptop has Mozilla Firefox, and it does not do that.

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

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and Searches are redirected to another site