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What's with the banner ads on the top of every page Firefox opens up?
What's with the banner ads at the top of almost every page that my FF 8 opens? The previous versions didn't have them. Screenshot 1
What's with the banner ads at the top of almost every page that my FF 8 opens? The previous versions didn't have them. [http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/22639/Screenshot1.jpg Screenshot 1]
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
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 their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked