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something called superfish is making window adds pop up. how do I stop this?

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goomba888 replied 13 years ago
goomba888
goomba888

a small window pops up on the bottom right of the screen with an ad and in small print at the bottom is says "by Superfish" there is a button to disable it, but it makes another window open that wants me to download something....

how do I get rid of this?

a small window pops up on the bottom right of the screen with an ad and in small print at the bottom is says "by Superfish" there is a button to disable it, but it makes another window open that wants me to download something.... how do I get rid of this?

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smo
smo

see first

Pop-up blocker settings, exceptions and troubleshooting

As the troubling "resident" seems to be rather invasive, this could be useful as well:

Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware