Website Shows Up In My Tab For No Reason

For the past couple weeks, I've noticed a website up on one of my tabs as if I went to that site and left the tab open. But I've never been to that site before. It's always the same site. I don't remember doing any changes to my laptop recently. I've ran AVG, CCleaner and Spybot but the site still comes back. This happens about twice a day. The site in question is https://www.fanduel.com/landing?btag=a_4046b_872c_PlugLuisao. It will come back in a couple hours after I close it. How can I stop this from happening? It's driving me crazy.

I'm running Windows 7. Thanks

 

try what I posted in this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sec...oying-virus-any-help-greatly-appreciated.html

start with ADWcleaner.

 

Well I tried everything you said. rkill, adw and combofix. Restarted my laptop and the same site, Fanduel opened in a tab. I think I was mistaken before. I think it only opens when I start my laptop. When I close the tab, I don't think it comes back. I checked my startup but didn't find anything unusual. I don't have many things that startup anyway. Any other suggestions? BTW, I'm using Firefox if that helps.

 

Did you check your homepage settings in FF?

 

Yes. My homepage is set to Yahoo as always. It's the second tab that shows the website in question. Thanks. What's weird is you can get to that site by https://www.fanduel.com/landing?btag...72c_PlugLuisao (as it shows up in my tab) and also by https://www.fanduel.com. So I'm not sure what all that stuff is after the original website such as /landing etc.

 

Try searching the registry for the path of the web site in question. If found, comment the key out, or backup the registry then delete the key if found.

 

Not sure how to do this. I typed in regedit in the search and opened the registry editor and saw 5 HKEY folders. Which one do I look in and am I actually looking for the website in the editor? Thanks.

 

Sorry for lack of details, once regedit is open, EXPORT- choose a file name and save this to a USB or other external drive (this S/B about 500 MB or less mine was 255 MB). This is your backup if needed. Then click computer once, then EDIT - FIND- and type the path in the find what box. This is where you put the web site address(s). If it is found more that once use F3 to find subsequent entries. Since you have a backup it is safe to delete any entries that are found, if in doubt let us know.
Glad to help!

 

I tried what you suggested but nothing came up. I searched for the entire website, fanduel, PlugLuisao and nothing was found. Is there anything else I can try? I appreciate your help.

 

As Tijo alluded to I would try creating a new profile for firefox .. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/k...-remove-firefox-profiles#w_removing-a-profile ... you need to start firefox with -p added to the path and you will see the profile manager .. create the new profile, test with it, then delete the old profile if this is the solution.

 

Checked the shorcuts to FF? After 'Target' you may find something like this:

Code:

"C:\some path\firefox.exe" https://www.fanduel.com

 

I just thought of something..

try using ccleaner.
under the Tools > Startup section, you can check to see what hidden stuff each browser is loading on startup.

 

Luckily I already had ccleaner installed. I went ahead and did what josea suggested and made another firefox profile. This seems to be working. I wanted to wait a day to report back just in case it didn't work. But I also just used ccleaner as you suggested. I went to startup and under the firefox browser. Of course I had double of everything since I have 2 profiles. But, there's only one thing I didn't have startup on my new profile that is on my old profile. It's this... default\extensions\[email protected]. Could that be causing the problem since it's only starting up on my old profile? Should I try to delete it and try my old profile?

 

try and right-click the entry and disable, then see what happens before you decide if you should delete it.

 

I just wanted to say thank you to all that helped me with this very irritating problem. I disabled default\extensions\[email protected] from my original firefox profile and the problem went away even after restarting my laptop several times. (I'm still using my original default profile now). Thanks again!

 

I had the same problem.... looks like it was an add-on in Firefox for HD video.... (named HD something). I removed this add-on and it seems to have solved the problem. May want to check your original profile and see if it is there. If you see and remove it... and it works, let me know so I can feel more confident that I got rid of it too.

- JC