How do I rid the User Account Control - "Do you want the following program to make changes to this computer?" - FireFox Helper pop-up that shows after every log in?

The following pop-up is displayed after every log-in, even after it is clicked yes after previous log-ins. Several students log-in the computers daily. How do I rid THIS?:
User Account Control
"Do you want the following program to make changes to this computer?
Program Name: FireFox Helper
Verified Publisher: Mozilla Corporation
File Origin: Hard Drive on this Computer

In Windows 7, Microsoft updated UAC in several ways. By default, UAC does not prompt when certain programs included with Windows make changes requiring elevated permissions. Other programs still trigger a UAC prompt. The strictness of UAC can be changed to either always prompt, or to never do so.
[http://windows.microsoft.com/eN-US/windows-vista/What-is-User-Account-Control What is User Account Control?]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Turn-User-Account-Control-on-or-off Turn User Account Control on or off]
It is the same on win7.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control User Account Control]
thank you
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