Why are my clicks being redirected to "jump" sites or advertising pages?

MyFirefox has been infected. It redirects my clicks to advertising pages. How can I overcome this. IT was worse before I ran Ad Aware, which at least cleaned things up enough so that FF would open. I am running Malware Bytes as I type, but i think this is deeper than that goes. AVG which I ran at the very start of the problem didn't even detect anything. What would you suggest?'''bold text'''

use the search reset tool and delete a possible user.js file in your profile folder
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/searchreset/
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-fix-preferences-wont-save#w_user-js-file-overriding-preferences

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