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After cleaning some malware off my system yesterday, Firefox won't open except directly after a system restart. Help?

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DBR5000
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Have reinstalled Firefox, renamed the .exe, no luck. Did another scan with Malwarebytes today and system came up clean. After reading online, it seems that this is not an uncommon problem. Can anyone offer assitance?

Oh, Firefox will not open in safe mode either.

Thanks!

Have reinstalled Firefox, renamed the .exe, no luck. Did another scan with Malwarebytes today and system came up clean. After reading online, it seems that this is not an uncommon problem. Can anyone offer assitance? Oh, Firefox will not open in safe mode either. Thanks!

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cor-el
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See "Hang at exit":

DBR5000
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Thanks, but I did a bunch of researching beforehand and none of that stuff applies. I get absolutely nothing when clicking the shortcut, going to the actual .exe, or trying to start in safe mode. Also, this is a fresh install after deleting my old profile.

Oh, and I am killing all the running instances of 'firefox.exe' in the task manager.

Any thoughts?

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