Open Windows Explorer.
Navigate to:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
You'll see hosts file in right pane (no extension)
Open that file in Notepad.
Add following line to it:
127.0.0.1 www.bhf.org.uk
Go File>Save
Exit Notepad.
Restart computer.
Let me know, if that tab is back.

BTW...what is your Firefox home page set to?
Sorry Broni - we are 2 HOURS ahead of you here, I went to bed before receiving your LAST post. Will carry out your instructions and get back in an hour or so.
Its 9:55 a.m. here right now, so I doubt at 7:45 a.m. you'd be too active - yet. I carried out your last instructions, optimistically opening up my browser - uh, oh there was my "friend" back again.

My home page is set at
Aha! Having just copied the address to here - I see the cussed British are included in it. I wondered why it was so long! What would you suggest now?

Bill.
Should have tried this before I replied. I copied my home page for Mozilla to the previous reply and bingo! -
there was the address for the British thing attached to my home page address. I have deleted beyond the legitimate home address and then corrected it under Options. Started fresh and no Brits present. Does this sound like I am "out of the woods"?

By the WAY Broni, would it be coincidence that both this problem + the TROJAN dilemma would happen at virtually the same time? Or could the virus somehow have been attached to the Brit URL?

Thanks,

Bill.Quote

Does this sound like I am "out of the woods"?

By the way Broni, would it be coincidence that both this problem + the Trojan dilemma would happen at virtually the same time? Or could the virus somehow have been attached to the Brit URL?