Cursor stays arrow on links and brings up ads instead of link

When I am in Firefox sometimes on a webpage the cursor will stay and arrow no matter what link I hover over. I notice that regardless of what link I click an add will come up in a new tab, but only when the cursor behaves this way. When the cursor is a hand as it should be all is well. In addition recently even though I am running firefox 24.0 I keep getting a new tab that opens and says update my firefox to the most recent now. Any help is welcome. I run AVG Antivirus and use Advanced System Care 6 to help maintain my PC they haven't indicated anything yet. I'm certain that somehow my system has gotten malware or that Firefox has been compromised.

hello, could you go to ''firefox > help > troubleshooting information'', copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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