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I am getting tracked
« on: July 23, 2014, 09:18:20 PM »
I am using Fire fox an getting tracked. A number of sites are popping up ads for there products that I inquired about by only by looking at there products. How can I stop this tracking?

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2014, 09:24:35 PM »
have you run a scan with Malwarebytes, and removed any PUP found.....

have you run AdwCleaner and deleted any crap found....


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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2014, 09:44:23 PM »
Yes to both of them and there no problems detected found by either of them.

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 09:52:27 PM »
Disable your add-ons / plugins one at a time to see which one is causing the problem.

If disabling them is not solving it...
Follow the instructions and ATTACH the logs to your next post.
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2014, 05:33:28 PM »
Did you try using the Avast browser cleanup tool? Adwcleaner does remove most of the toolbars, but running a scan with that wont hurt.

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2014, 05:37:05 PM »
I did all of what was suggest with out val.

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2014, 05:38:36 PM »
I did all of what was suggest with out val.
except Eddys suggestion ..... and attaching the farbar diagnostic log so essexboy can have a look inside


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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2014, 05:46:57 PM »
Here is the logs:

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2014, 05:47:56 PM »
Here is the logs:
essexboy is notified

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Re: I am getting tracked
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2014, 06:57:53 PM »
I feel this may be a tracking cookie

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