Firefox - Ads appearing at top of screen. Help!

Dinarius

I run Firefox on two computers.

On both machines, Google is the homepage.

On both machines, under Firefox/Options/Content, Block Popup Windows is ticked.

Just in the last half hour (I did start and then stop Expat Shield to browse a site - maybe that had an effect?) a space has appeared under the toolbar, the full width of the screen, in which ads are appearing. So, the Google menu items Web, Images, Maps....etc...... are about an inch below the toolbar instead of just below it.

If I tick the X next to the ads, they disappear. But. as soon as I do a seach in Google they reappear.

Never happened before and very annoying. Any idea how to stop this?

Thanks.

D.

Edited: Just realized two things.

1. The ad pop-up is appearing in Chrome too.

2. BBC iPlayer (which I use a lot) appears on the left hand side of the pop-up window all the time. I presume that I can change the iPlayer settings to prevent this? But, how?

James G

My guess is that you didn't stop Expat Shield properly. Is the process still running? If so, close it and then see if the advertisements are still showing (might want to restart the browser before checking).

Dinarius

I think you're right!

I actually uninstalled Expat Shield and the ads appear to have stopped.

Going to reinstall it now and see what happens.

Not sure how to stop it properly though!

Thanks.

D.