Files.com starting as Firefox start page?

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I was fixing a PC and I came across this annoying problem

Whenever I start Firefox, files.com starts as the start page even the the homepage is different

I tried starting IE and Opera but it didn’t have this problem

I did a full scan and I didn’t find anything

What can be it?

Can someone check the files.com website?

I checked with Norton but I didn’t find any malware on that site

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Online Link Scan finds the site to be clean :

--------- LINK SCAN SUMMARY ---------
URL scanned: http://www.files.com
PhisTank say’s: Service not available.
AVG say’s: Service not available.
SiteTruth say’s: This site is safe.
Google Safe Browsing say’s: This site is safe.
Threat Name: No Threat FOUND
Threat Definitions: 806719
Engine Version: 0.96.1
Host IP: 216.92.18.178
Link Status: Clean
File Size: 5.09 KB
Time Finished: 5 secs
Overall result: This site is secure.

UnmaskParasites finds the site to be clean :

http://www.UnmaskParasites.com/security-report/?page=www.files.com

Nothing found by Wepawet :

http://wepawet.cs.ucsb.edu/domain.php?hash=35164bffa129de1772d9340546d2e86b&type=js

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Chris, simple solution.

Don’t use Firefox. :wink:

http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

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Or simply change you home page. :slight_smile:

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Where do homeless people put their home page ???

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Where do homeless people put their home page
LOL! Yeah, you could just stop using FireFox, or switch your home page.
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Chris

Lets say you search Firefox by clicking the following link

http://en-US.start3.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

now this should take you to Firefox default Start page
go to Tools in the toolbar across top of screen
and from dropdown menu, choose Options, look under the General tab

and see what you have as yr Firefox home page

you may been visiting Files.com and unknowingly clicked the wrong thing

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Thanks everyone for helping me out

This is what I saw even though I reinstalled Firefox

http://i30.tinypic.com/211qd1g.png

http://i30.tinypic.com/211qd1g.png

But I fixed this problem

Actually I did the following to have Firefox 4 installed beside the stable Firefox

  1. Create a folder for that version of Firefox, like maybe C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox 3.6b2\
  2. Extract the Zip file into the folder that you created,
  3. Right-click the firefox.exe file and Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)
  4. Create an empty folder where you want the new Profile for this version to be located, like maybe C:\Program Files\Mozilla\07-13-10\ to keep it near the Firefox program files. The name of that Profile would be 07-13-10.
  5. Modify the Target line of the Desktop shortcut that you created like this:
    ~firefox.exe" -profile C:\Program Files\Mozilla\07-13-10 (there has to be a space between .exe" and -profile)
    Then click apply.
  6. Double-click that Desktop shortcut to launch the new version you just installed and a new Profile will be created upon Startup.

So, whenever I lauched my Firefox 4, it started with http://files/Minefield/07-13-10

And since, it is not a valid site, it was redirected to files.com

Thanks Again!

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Quite possible … once, back when I had Spyware Guard, it gave me a warning while I was browsing a web page that there was an attempt to change my home page (normally about:blank). I denied permission to make the change, and since I’d long been satisfied that the site in question does a good job of housekeeping and staying clean, I decided afterwards I’d probably inadvertently clicked on their make-this-your-home-page link (or, a remote possibility, accidentally hit the hot-key equivalent).