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installed superspyware still getting anoying pop up ads in text

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cor-el replied 12 years ago
addtony
addtony

on pages of text some words have yellow backgrounds if the cursor goes over it up pops a box with ads that are not related to my page content

on pages of text some words have yellow backgrounds if the cursor goes over it up pops a box with ads that are not related to my page content

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cor-el
cor-el
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.

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