I was taken by surprise when I started seeing ads on my
Google search home page. Google had never done that before. Then there were ads
on the search results page, which were suggestive of adult content, below which
it was written (presumably by Google) ‘Ad
not by this site’. Someone had fixed the system so that Google pages would show
their ads without receiving any revenue. This happened consistently in Firefox,
but not in Google chrome. So it was probably malware targeting some security
hole in Firefox only. I mentioned this to my son, a software consultant.
“It is malware. I had got it too. Use Superantispyware to
get rid of it.”
I got rid of it by using antispyware he had advised. It
was OK for four days and then the ads returned, as adult as possible, and would
not go away with Superantispyware. Finally I uninstalled Firefox, including all
settings and other things it wanted to keep behind in case I wanted to install
it again. I wanted to install it again all right. But leaving that information
behind meant leaving the malware behind. Then I installed a new copy of Firefox
and the ads have not appeared again over a period of one month. I have written
this so that any readers who experience this trouble and do not have a software
specialist to advise them can read about it and fix their problem.
