Crazy Like a Fox.com: Make it Stop!

March 20, 2008 9:57 AM

Help! For a few days now, Fox.com keeps loading a tab in Firefox automatically every so often. How do I get it to stop? I tried clearing cookies and stuff, and scanned for malware and found nothing. I also tried reinstalling Firefox since I wanted to upgrade to the latest beta of Firefox 3 anyway. I'm behind a corporate firewall here, so this kinda thing never happens typically. Any ideas?
posted by GS1977 to technology (4 comments total)

Have you tried turning off JavaScript?
posted by dubitable at 11:03 AM on March 20, 2008

any chance you have it bookmarked? probably not but I had a weird thing happen with that once.
posted by sully75 at 11:18 AM on March 20, 2008

Maybe you can try the noscript extension to block scripts unless you specifically allow them.
posted by frankie_stubbs at 11:26 AM on March 20, 2008

Ok. Great...turns out I got pranked.

My coworker added a scheduled task to open the site every 10 minutes as a lesson for forgetting to lock my workstation. :)

Thanks, anyway.
posted by GS1977 at 12:45 PM on March 20, 2008