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Since a few days ago my firefox browser is infested with adware by CheapMe. I have unsuccessfully used various anti-virus scans to remove this. Very annoying. I need guide to manually remove this adware please. I would expect better security with firefox. Windows 7 and latest update of firefox.

Since a few days ago my firefox browser is infested with adware by CheapMe. I have unsuccessfully used various anti-virus scans to remove this. Very annoying. I need guide to manually remove this adware please. I would expect better security with firefox. Windows 7 and latest update of firefox.

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You can open the about:config page via the location bar and search for prefs that refer to cheapme and reset related user set (bold) prefs via the right-click context menu to the default value.

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

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

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.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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