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I am hearing random advertisements even when none of my web browsers are up?

Every time i hear these advertisements i remember hearing them or seeing them when my web browser is up but the next day or later on i hear it when nothing is up. Ive been hearing it for a few weeks now and really need help. I use Mozilla Firefox if that helps. Ive tried system restore but for some reason i cant restore my computer too (i don't know if that's another virus maybe?)

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1. Try system restore again with different restore point. Stop unwanted startup programs, some virus or other program may be running in background. you can use CCleaner to stop unwanted startup programs, its free. download it from http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
2. Sounds like a rootkit virus it can hijack your browser but without any windows open it can send you to advertising sites etc. Download "rootkit revealer" from Microsoft or Sysinternals and run it, These things can disable normal antiviruses and anti malware. Go to Task manager and under processes see if there is an oddnamed process sometimes just random letters and or numbers and end process. Then go to Start>run and type in msconfig and click OK, Look under the "startup" tab and uncheck the same process name if it appears there. The registry will need to be cleaned up but normal programs should be able to do that when you have disabled the rogue program. These things can disable recognised anti-malware programs and system tools like task manager, so you may have to download process explorer or killprocess to stop the process, you need also to rename the malware bytes .exe file to, say for example, xxxx.exe or just copy it to the same folder when it will produce a copy called "copy of..." and run that. Instructions on the malwarebytes.org site Give up on Firefox until its fixed there are currently just too many problems to rate it as a reliable piece of software. Try Orca, K-Meleon or Flock they are all free Mozilla based browsers and are all faster than Firefox. They have been produced by people who agree the Mozilla search engine is best but that firefox has gone wrong somewhere. If you go to firefox help pages or Mozillazine help pages you will see that the people there are extremely arrogant and blame everything and everybody for having problems with Firefox. Not a good sign. IE8 is OK with a shell like Avant or Maxthon or slim browser. But a browser that is not part of the OS will always be more secure. the less well known it is the less likely it will be hacked.
3. run: Free Malwarebytes: http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html Free Superantispyware: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/SuperAntiSpyware.html