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pop up. reduce system load. how to?

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booting up as soon as firefox loads a pop up will state high cpu use and another pop up states "reduce system load" how do i do this?

booting up as soon as firefox loads a pop up will state high cpu use and another pop up states "reduce system load" how do i do this?

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I'm still running Firefox 12, so if this is a new feature of Firefox 13, I am not familiar with it. It also doesn't sound like a standard Windows XP feature.

It is possible that you accidentally installed some adware that tries to sell you a third party product. You may want to run some supplemental security scans. These two tools are highly regarded:

Malwarebytes Anti-malware : http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

SUPERAntiSpyware : http://www.superantispyware.com/

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Sounds like malware, check out the tools listed here:

https://support.mozilla.org/fi/questions/927290