Strange Secure Search alert freezes firefox. What could be causing this?

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Since yesterday a white Box called Secure Search pops up on the screen when I'm using firefox. Yesterday was the first time I'd ever seen this alert. It is not the Mcafee site advisory, in fact I don't know for sure what this box could be. The alert box has two red x's at the top so I can't click the box off and the box freezes my firefox screen/window. The box sometimes pops up randomly but most of the time it pops up when I'm on facebook, myspace, yahoo and yahoo answers or when entering my passwords on those sites. It just happened again while I was typing this question!! Every time it freezes firefox I have to open firefox again in a new window and sometimes that window freezes too and I'm forced to restart my pc.


The Box says:

"Try Secure Search and click with more confidence. Secure Search is a free enhancement to your siteadvisor software that helps make using the web safer."

P.S.

I'm running Windows Vista, I have Mcafee Antivirus, firewall and antispyware running. I've scanned my pc countless times with Mcafee and Malware bytes, I've cleaned my system registry and nothing malicious was detected. What could be causing this? Thank you.
 
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