After Creating a New Tab in Firefox...

by zlzpqx Sep 22, 2012 10:37AM PDT

I had posted yesterday at 7:21 AM the post which I have attached below. An additional somewhat related annoying phenomenon has newly started in Firefox browser. Whenever I create a new tab, automatically a "Search" window with the web site URL http://search.babylon.com/?affID=110790&tt=120912_ccp_3812_7&babsrc=NT_ss&mntrId=a294b26e00000000000074de2b250925 has started appearing on my screen!

I positively don't want the above spurious web page just as I don't want, as described below, the "Google Search" window and the spurious multiple "Google Search" tabs at Startup of my computer.

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My previous post:

Firefox Tabs and Home Page

I have Windows 7. Firefox is my default browser.

In Tools > Options> General > Startup, for "When Firefox starts", I have selected the option "Show my windows and tabs from last time". With regard to the next "Home page" item, three options are available: "Use current pages", "Use bookmark...", and "Restore to default". (Clicking on "Restore to default" supplies "Mozilla Firefox as start page".) Frustratingly, IRRESPECTIVE of which of those three options I use and then after clicking on "OK", I close that window, the following has somehow started happening recently:

Suppose that before I shut down my computer, there were Firefox tabs for certain three web pages. When I restart my computer, the tabs for those three web pages do properly appear on my screen, but BESIDES them, tabs for as many as FOUR "Google search" web pages have mysteriously started appearing, with one of those "Google search" windows then appearing as my home page! I do not want ANY of those four "Google search" tabs to be added on in my Tabs bar, nor do I want a "Google search" window to appear as my home page. When I check the "Home page" item in Tools > Options> General > Startup, the name of that darned "Google search" appears there!!!

The above phenomenon is both mysterious and very frustrating to me.

How do I get rid of all of those automatically introduced FOUR "Google search" tabs and the "Google search" home page too whenever I start my computer??

Thank you for the help!

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I, too, have noticed

by lacsr Sep 22, 2012 10:17PM PDT

I use FireFox as my primary browser, have not noticed this in FireFox, but in Google Chrome the phenomenon that is described here is happening. I will watch this discussion in the hope the cause is something simple and not a malware. I ran a malwarebytes scan but it came back clean.

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Mischief Mongers from Babylon

by zlzpqx Sep 23, 2012 1:28AM PDT

I found that Babylon virus had introduced three things in my computer:

(1) Introduction of a program named "Babylon toolbar on IE";

(2) Introduction of a program named "BabylonObject Installer"; and

(3) Introduction of a Babylon search engine.

So I uninstalled the above two programs and also removed the Babylon search engine from my menu of search engines.

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There is quite a bit of discussion on Babylonian mischief in http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6132_102-565014/how-to-remove-babylon-virus/.

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Addendum: Good News

by zlzpqx Sep 23, 2012 3:54AM PDT

This is a Good News concerning the problem which I had stated under "My previous post".

Out of curiosity, I opened the available FAQ link in the web site http://static.infoaxe.com/websearch.html?u=10907447&t=1.0.4.5, which used to appear in a spuriously generated "Google +Flip" tab. (I used to mistakenly think that those were spuriously generated "Google Search" tabs.)

Clearly, some Infoaxe folks have brazenly used Google's trademark in their own "Flipora"/"Google+Flip" web site.

Anyway, I have successfully implemented the straightforward method which is provided in the FAQ to get rid of both of my "Google+Flip" annoyances.

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