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To: GeronL

Wireless connection logon, and as for Firefox—Omigosh, you talk about browsers messing up! It kept opening up multiple tabs without my say-so to ad sites, and pop-up add crap everywhere. Could never get anything done, so after two tries of uninstalling and reinstalling and making sure I had the latest version, I finally called it quits. I’m thinking of reinstalling Tor.


18 posted on 01/17/2015 8:08:46 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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To: Patriot777

It sounds like you did have some malware!


22 posted on 01/17/2015 8:14:23 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Patriot777

When you read stuff on sites, are there a lot of underlined words that have pop-ups if your cursor touches them?

That is also adware!


25 posted on 01/17/2015 8:16:07 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Patriot777

“as for Firefox—Omigosh, you talk about browsers messing up! It kept opening up multiple tabs without my say-so to ad sites, and pop-up add crap everywhere. Could never get anything done, so after two tries of uninstalling and reinstalling and making sure I had the latest version, I finally called it quits. I’m thinking of reinstalling Tor.”

You are probably full of viruses and malware.

Browsers don’t do that, malware,adware, viruses that glom on the the browser do that.


28 posted on 01/17/2015 8:17:04 AM PST by ifinnegan
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It kept opening up multiple tabs without my say-so to ad sites, and pop-up add crap everywhere.

Sounds like you have some pesky adware (or maybe a trojan) on your computer that's slowing things down.

Try malwarebytes

35 posted on 01/17/2015 8:19:59 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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