Info box when Firefox opens

When I log on to Firefox there is an information box, maybe its called and Advertising Box - How do I remove it - It is very distracting. Its like this one which I copied when I opened Firefox:
''Congress is trying to censor the internet. Help Mozilla fight for a free and open web: Get involved today.''

You should never respond to such a pop-up. 
By doing that you most likely got infected by malware. 
Only update via Help > About and download and install Firefox via the official Mozilla servers.
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs. 
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. 
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan. 
*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

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