How do I get rid of unwated pages from advertisers

I have asked this before and was answered but that computer crashed and I lost the information. So, take 2 (please).
I try to log into my bank but the login page has been badly abused and is now all misshapen and wont allow me to even click the login button let alone go further. I have removed Firefox completely including cache etc (or so I thought) and as much other stuff as I can find/remember, shut down and rebooted the computer to clear anything left in the memory then re-installed only to find exactly the same page when I try to log into my bank.
I cannot find anything in the Q&A to help. So,,,,,,, what can I do now please? (apart from panic.)

Thank you for your reply and I believe you are correct in your statement, Many unwanted spam pages were allowed by one add-on in particular. Sadly its like shutting the door after the horse has bolted. Please allow me to explain what has been done so far.
1st, completely used the on-board antivirus.
2nd Deleted the complete Firefox program,
3rd Ran Uni-Blue to clean, defrag and overwrite non-wanted files/entries in the registry,
4th Made sure there were no entries in the start-up,
5th Defragged the computers HDD to clean and overwrite non-wanted files/entries on said HDD.
6th Rebooted the computer.
7th Reinstalled and set up the Mozilla Firefox program from scratch. (No using purposefully saved set up files)
I have done all of this 3 times now and even changed antivirus programs because they are not all made equal and files have been missed by some.
That one page keeps loading from somewhere and I would like to know where so I could make a better attempt at removing it.
I have completely reinstalled Mozilla Firefox a total of 7 times in all, the first 2 I just scanned using an antivirus, the third was as above using "House Call" by Trend Micro Systems and making sure no add-ons or extensions were employed. I have not found any trojans, worms, viri or other such nasties. But that one page is stuck somewhere inside Mozilla Firfefox's files/library and has eluded all my attemps to be rid of it hence my call for help. I have been a Mozilla Firefox user for many years now and have never had a problem like this before but, these spammers are becoming far more serious in later years and are requiring far more serious effort to be rid of them.
Sincere thanks to all contributors. I think I am looking at another hard drive to install Firefox on and run it without ANY addons/extensions which seemingly are magnets for spam.

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