New tab opens by itself

Hi all,
I noticed this for the first time on 2/7/15 and 2/8/15 as well... One time per day, both times I was reading an article on a different site and a new tab opened itself to youtube... To a Mcdonald's commercial that I had never watched...
I wasn't touching the computer at all, and nothing on the website (Yahoo news) had a link anywhere that I found
Malwarebytes doesn't find anything, and was running other scans through a help group that didn't turn up anything... Has this recently happened to anyone??? Thanks

''Mitch55 [[#question-1045902|said]]''
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Hi all,
I noticed this for the first time on 2/7/15 and 2/8/15 as well... One time per day, both times I was reading an article on a different site and a new tab opened itself to youtube... To a Mcdonald's commercial that I had never watched...
I wasn't touching the computer at all, and nothing on the website (Yahoo news) had a link anywhere that I found
Malwarebytes doesn't find anything, and was running other scans through a help group that didn't turn up anything... Has this recently happened to anyone??? Thanks
</blockquote>
''FredMcD [[#answer-688627|said]]''
<blockquote>
Does this happen at the same time, or different times?
It could be an add-on or ad-ware.
</blockquote>
I didn't keep track of the time... I could see a Mcdonald's popup happening, but not a whole new page in a new tab... What is a good adware program to track that??? Thanks

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