Firefox opens window with tabs leading to garbled links

Almost every time I go to a site, firefox opens a new window with numerous tabs trying to access garbled links. The first tab looks like this: http://i56.tinypic.com/2nkuo9k.jpg.
Anti-virus programs found nothing, and re-installing firefox didn't fix it.

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br />
<br />
* http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
* http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
* http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
* "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences

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