Firefox won't allow refdesk as my home page, all other browsers ok
Firefox has for years my browser and refdesk has been my homepage. yesterday morning that I registered a 404 message that refdesk is not found. I tried google and internet explore and both find refdesk without problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled firefox with the same result.
You use a bookmark?
This also occurs if you try to open this URL via the address bar or in a window in incognito mode?
You can delete all data stored in Firefox with a specific area through "Forget this Site" in the context menu of a history entry ("" history > view history "or" view > sidebar > History "") or via the subject: permissions page.
Using "Forget this Site" will delete all data stored in Firefox in this area as bookmarks, cookies, words of past, cache, history, and exceptions, so be careful and if you have a password or other data from that domain you don't want to lose then check that back up these data or make a comment.
You can't recover from this "forget" unless you have a backup of the files involved.
It has no lasting effect, so if come back you on such a 'forgotten' site, then the data of this Web site will be saved once more.
Make a check of malware with several malware scanning of programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs, because each program detects a different malicious program.
All of these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before scanning.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.Malwarebytes.org/MBAM.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.Softpedia.com/get/antivirus/removal-tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.SUPERAntiSpyware.com/ - Microsoft security scanner:
http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/using-Defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky free Security Scan:
http://www.Kaspersky.com/security-scan
Alternatively, you can write a check for an infection rootkit TDSSKiller.
- Utility anti-rootkit TDSSKiller:
http://support.Kaspersky.com/5350?El=88446
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
- https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/troubleshoot-Firefox-issues-caused-malware
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