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Christopher11

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Feb 10, 2007
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I picked up a malicious virus of some sort on Firefox. It keeps creating extra windows when I open a new page, and worst of all, today, when I went to log in to Paypal, created a fake Paypal page that was identical except for the URL. I need to get rid of this ASAP. Please advise. Thank you.
 

Christopher11

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Feb 10, 2007
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This is specifically and only on Firefox. Surely there is an extension or something like that I can delete?
 

Grumpus

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Jan 17, 2021
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In the Firefox menu bar, click Help -> Troubleshoot Mode... -> Restart. This should restart Firefox with all extensions disabled. If the problem goes away with extensions disabled, you know where to look next. You could also "refresh" Firefox, which is basically a re-install but any problematic extensions would remain. I would still run a Malwarebytes scan, but that's up to you. Good luck.
 
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