For about a week now you put in the most basic of searches and then try to enter a site and firfox goes off to totally random sites, could be related to an update but what do I need to change to stop it happening?
Firefox has always been great on going to selected sites, now for past week or so it goes off to the most random of sites even when the site you selected is well known and used, very frustrating
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
== possibly after one of your updates
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Malware on your PC can cause Search engine re-directs. Or it might be caused by a Rootkit.
Install, update, and run these programs in this order. They are all free for personal use, but some have limited functionality in the "free mode" - but those are features you really don't need to find and remove the problem that you have. (Not all programs detect the same Malware.)
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php SuperAntispyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/ AdAware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Spybot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
If these don't find it or can't clear it, post in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help: http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php http://forum.aumha.org/ http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/ http://bleepingcomputer.com