The URL is not valid and can not be loaded in excite home page

Windows 7 64bit. New HP computer. I loaded firefox and use excite as my homepage. When excite comes up the page loads and about 7 or 8 seconds later a pop up appears with "The URL is not valid and can not be loaded" on it. I can't figure out what URL is not valid. It does it every time I refresh or come back to the homepage. It just did it again as I type this.
Can anyone help?

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