Since restarting Firefox, I'm getting advertisments on my Yahoo home page, that I didnt have before.

I restarted Firefox, because my Yahoo mail wasn't working right. It refused to let me search mail. Restarting fixed that problem, but now I have annoying ads on my Yahoo home page that I didn't have before.

The reason I restarted firefox was to try to fix another problem I'm having, however. I can no longer search mail in yahoo. When I first restarted firefox, it fixed the problem. But 10 minutes later it's back again.
I recently did some pretty extensive scans, and got rid of a virus called scorecard research. I did a few more, of the ones you listed, and I'm clean so far.
I did want to say that I also installed Firefox Adblocker plus, which fixed my problem with ads in my yahoo mail.I had Adblock plus installed already, but restarting made it go away, for some reason.
I am still trying to figure out the problem with yahoo mail. It doesn't happen when I use internet explorer...

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