Had a possible virus, now FF is opening a random page when program is started

[jnelsoninjax]

Stupid me ignored the warning of FF when downloading something that was supposed to help with an android game my friend was playing, and Kaspersky had some issues with it, deleted it and I thought it was OK, it has installed a few different programs, which I was able to uninstall with IOBIT uninstaller. Now the issue I have is every time I open Firefox it is now showing me file:///C:/PROGRA~2/MOZILL~1/ (prior to this is was opening a website which I blacklisted using Noscript), but when I check the options I clearly have it set to open a blank page. I ran a check with Malware Bytes, and it detected 200+ PUP issues just in the Firefox directory. I allowed it quarantine all the issues, rebooted and the issue persists. So my question is where else can Firefox be getting the instruction to open that file location and ignore the fact that it is supposed to be showing a blank page on startup? 

[+BudMan MVC]

What I don't get is why do you not just nuke it from orbit when something like this happens??  If you have something in question - why would you run it on your main machine and not in some sandbox or VM?

 

200+ pups..  Yeah restore to your last known good image would be my advice..

[TPreston]

Nuke it if you don't want to do that check the shortcut it probably has "firefox.exe http:\\someurl.com"

[jnelsoninjax]

1 hour ago, TPreston said:

Nuke it if you don't want to do that check the shortcut it probably has "firefox.exe http:\\someurl.com"

Exactly what it was doing, the shortcut was loading a Firefox.bat which told Firefox to load that address