680146 - xulrunner 1.9.1 or apmebf allows googleads to redirect google web searches

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Rice]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1
Build ID: 20110707182747

Steps to reproduce:

I updated to the latest version of Firefox (5.0).  I have run SuperAntiSpyware, Hitman Pro and Malwarebytes repeatedly.


Actual results:

No change.


Expected results:

Sporadically, when using Google (on Firefox only), I am redirected to websites that I did not click on.  I had read a posting that indicated updating to the latest version of Firefox would address this issue; it did not.  I have also read numerous postings that  xulrunner 1.9.1 is the culprit and must be deleted or disabled, or a cookie known as apmebf, but I am unclear if either of these are the solutions.  I would need to know how to disable or delete both of these if they are contributing to the problem.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please ask for help at http://support.mozilla.com. Bugzilla is not the right place to ask for support.
The xulrunner thing you mentioned is a malware addon that appears under (alt key)/tools/addons/extensions if it's installed on your system.