Why did a ton of adware come with your Firefox down load for your browser? It corrupted my computer and crashed it several times.

I down loaded firefox from your site and all of a sudden all this adware popped up on my computer. I thought I visited a bad site for a minute and tried figuring it out from there. I was wrong. It came with your down load for firefox. Did you intentionally add that to your browser? Or was your site hacked? Adware Linksy was what I found and it went ape on my computer too. I used to use Firefox because I loved the versatility of it. Now I have to use Chrome. I am not happy. Firefox was what I recommended to everyone and recently everyone I know has been getting the same issues.
Is there a reason for all this?

Are you sure you downloaded Firefox from the official link?
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
The download link there should not be loaded with adware. If you do not download from the official site, some sites will package Firefox with PUP (potentially unwanted programs). In these situations you should uninstall applications that look suspicious, including Firefox, and run a virus scan after removing them. Then download Firefox again from the link above (or if you prefer a different localization of Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/)
You can try these free programs to scan for malware, which work with your existing antivirus software:
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx Microsoft Safety Scanner]
* [http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/disinfection/5350 Anti-Rootkit Utility - TDSSKiller]
* [http://general-changelog-team.fr/en/downloads/viewdownload/20-outils-de-xplode/2-adwcleaner AdwCleaner] (for more info, see this [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ alternate AdwCleaner download page])
* [http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/ Hitman Pro]
* [http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ ESET Online Scanner]
Further information can be found in the [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]] article.
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