My current tab redirects me to another site on the same tab
I usually spend time reading articles in various sites and some of these sites have videos on it matching the article. But I lose my reading/ watching progress because without even clicking or pressing anything, the current tab redirects me to another site. Mostly, it'll redirect me to sites that starts with some kind of survey or just some download video downloader stuff. And I know these are potentially harmful sites. It pisses me off losing my reading/ watching progress because of these redirects. Please help me solve this. Thank you.
PS: I already disabled and removed all unwanted extensions and/or plug-ins
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Hi, try working through How to remove Any Browser Redirect virus (Removal Guide) by Malware Tips.
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I agree. You may have ad / mal-ware. Further information can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware article.
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.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
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