I've had this laptop for about six months and recently (a week or ten days) my usually reliable Firefox (25.0) has started to crash regularly.
When I 'restore session' the first page that comes up is a request from McAfee Security Scan Plus suggesting that I update to a paid version (McAfee Total Protection - URL:-
http : //home.mcafee.com/Root/Campaign.aspx?cid=81716&ss=3&rid=0&ths=3&trj=0&vir=0&pup=0&v irc=0&trjc=0&pupc=0&webd=1&web=0 ) - no spaces
Any ideas how to purge this 'spam' as I have no intention of buying a paid-for version?
Do I have to (simply?) uninstall McAfee?
It has never been intrusive before but it is annoying me beyond my tolerance.
The shortcut is addressed to C : \Windows\TEMP\nsn9315.tmp\x64 (no spaces) but that says it is 'not valid'.
Edited to add:- The installation date for McAfee Security Scan Plus is 18th October 2013 - I certainly didn't install this willingly, maybe it was bundled with an Adobe Flash update?
Adobe updates Flash against security flaw - but watch out for the extras | Technology | theguardian.com
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