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I keep noticing tabs for optical express, voda phone and others opening at the bottom of the screen when I haven't been to their site. How can I block them?

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When I am on the net, I keep noticing websites which have opened a tab at the bottom of the screen, vodaphone, optical express etc advertising their wares, How can I block them?

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When I am on the net, I keep noticing websites which have opened a tab at the bottom of the screen, vodaphone, optical express etc advertising their wares, How can I block them? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened

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Do you mean new small windows (popups)?

Tools->Options->Content->Block popup windows

Does it help you?

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no they are not small pop up windows. I have pop-up blocker . These only appear at the bottom of the screen. When I click on them they open a new page.

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Do a malware check with a few malware scan programs. You need to use all programs because each detects different malware.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page .......... See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked