When I go to Ebay a second firefox session starts with advertising on it, how do I prevent this ?

Whenever I go to EBAY a second Firefox session starts behind this one. Its only noticable when the first session closes.
Very annoying, is there a setting to prevent this?
Colin BP

It is a new Firefox session that displays a Vodafone page with:
http://img.mediaplex.com/content/0/14879/110068/770x560_vodafone-lp-LG-cookie-20.html?mpck=altfarm.mediaplex.com%2Fad%2Fck%2F14879-110068-2958-0%3Fmpt%3D[CACHEBUSTER]&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]&mpvc=
in the address bar, advertising something. Also it pops up on signing out of Ebay.

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