Confused What is going on?

Rubber Bullets

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Hi All,

Got an annoying issue with Firefox at the moment, running Win 10.

Mostly on the BBC website, though very occasionally on one or two others, including alarmingly the NatWest site, I am having new tabs open with adverts when I click a link. The new tab looks basically like the BBC site, but has a bar at the top saying 'Ads bt Addjet'.

I have run anti virus scans, Malwarebytes and AdAware etc. but have found nothing, but this still persists.

Any ideas?

This is a picture of the ad:

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Many thanks

RB
 

Syri

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That's a heck of a lot of addons running there... I'd say with almost 100% certainty that one of those is the cause, if you've not installed or updated any recently, try removing them all and just activating one or two at a time, starting with the most trusted/essential, until you find the culprit. That's about the best I can suggest offhand.
 

DaGaffer

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Yep, pretty sure its an addon. Girl in my office had a similar issue that scared the shit out of tech support until I pointed it out. It was some voucher code thing.
 

Trem

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Also try installing uBlock once the culprit has been found?
 

caLLous

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I've gone off him a bit since he facepalmed me a while ago tbh. That one hurt. :(

Before the mass-facepalming begins, I don't care if any of you bellends do it. :)
 

Rubber Bullets

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I've gone off him a bit since he facepalmed me a while ago tbh. That one hurt. :(

Before the mass-facepalming begins, I don't care if any of you bellends do it. :)

I can't remember face palming you, I can't remember face palming anyone ever, I'm to scared people will go of me. Which clearly you did.

Ah well.

Love you to Trem, on every level ;)
 

Trem

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I can't remember face palming you, I can't remember face palming anyone ever, I'm to scared people will go of me. Which clearly you did.

Ah well.

Love you to Trem, on every level ;)
I totally agree, you would never facepalm anyone, not on purpose anyway. Ignore callous chum, he's one of them European types.
 

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