Why am I overwhelmed by ads that bypass my settings?

In the past three days, I have been overwhelmed by ads which are full screen and block any other view, are extremely difficult to get rid of, keep coming back after closed.Also, huge number of smaller popups and hyper text links which are activated by mouse over and have nothing to do with anything I know of or have interest in. My data allotment is being devoured by ads. My system is about 30 days old, in good shape. What can I do besides cancel my satellite system and eat the penalty cost?

hello, this is usually caused by adware on your computer. please perform all these steps:
# [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems|reset firefox]] (this will keep your bookmarks and passwords)
# afterwards go to the firefox menu [[Image:New Fx Menu]] > addons > extensions and in case there are still extensions listed there, disable them.
# finally run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free free version of malwarebytes] and [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ adwcleaner] to make sure that adware isn't present in other places of your system as well.
[[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]]

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