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When I start to type in the address bar, the follwoing address shows up even though I've NEVER been there: www15.zippyshare.com - how do I get rid of this?

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This started happening after a Firefox update. When I type 'www' into the bar, it automatically fills in the rest of the www15.zippyshare.com address! I never ever EVER been to that site, nor have I ever even heard of it. What is this? I want it to go away.

This started happening after a Firefox update. When I type 'www' into the bar, it automatically fills in the rest of the www15.zippyshare.com address! I never ever EVER been to that site, nor have I ever even heard of it. What is this? I want it to go away.

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You can remove all stored data from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry (Show All History or History sidebar) or via the about:permissions page.

Using "Forget About This Site" will remove everything like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions from that domain, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make a note of those passwords and bookmarks.
You can't recover from that "forget" unless you have a backup of the affected files.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox Profile Folder.


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.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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