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There is a blue box with a white padlock in the middle of my screen. Happened when I was exploring FF security as a newbie.How do I get it off?

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Happened while exploring FF security as a newbie. Don 't know what I did but how do I get it off there?

Happened while exploring FF security as a newbie. Don 't know what I did but how do I get it off there?

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Is it only occurring while you are using Firefox or all the time. Because, it looks like you have changed some settings on your monitor. However you may try this: http://www.paulstravelpictures.com/Dell-LCD-Monitor-Flashing-Padlock-Icon/index.htm

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Is it only occurring while you are using Firefox or all the time. Because, it looks like you have changed some settings on your monitor. However you may try this: http://www.paulstravelpictures.com/Dell-LCD-Monitor-Flashing-Padlock-Icon/index.htm

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Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.

Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

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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Sashoto Seeam, You named the solution! It was a monitor issue! Thanks so much for the answer!