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Browser Hijack? New tab to hijacked Yahoo/AT&T email login opens when booting Mozilla
When I boot Mozilla two tabs open rather than one. The second tab is to a hijacked email login page asking for my Yahoo/AT&T email password. This second tab appears every time I boot Mozilla and links to the webpage below. I run Windows XP and have the McAfee suite of security programs that comes with AT&T DSL and have changed my password after it was hacked, but I want to stop the second hijacked tab from appearing, for fear I may mistakenly login there again and disclose my new email password.
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Check the home page setting:
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page - Firefox supports multiple home pages separated by '|' symbols
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
Delete the sessionstore.js file and possible sessionstore-##.js files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost, so you will have to create them again (make a note or bookmark them).
Many thanks for your reply. I deleted all of the sessionstore files I could find, but perhaps there are others that are hidden that I would have missed. I also made sure that I have only one home page, which is my legitimate Yahoo AT&T email login page. Unfortunately, the second tab with the "hacked" Yahoo AT&T email login page continues to appear every time I boot Mozilla.
I tried the Blocksite add-on for Mozilla and entered the web address of the second hacked tab, but when I re-booted Mozilla it caused problems with the loading of my legitimate Yahoo AT&T email login page. So I am back where I started.