"text Enhance" Not Recognized

Dunno if this is the right forum, so sorry if it isn't.

I noticed weird link-popups appearing on webpages today (using Firefox) .. it was due to that "text enhance"-crap, which IS 2013 apparently didn't block/recognize. I'm on autopilot mode and it reports "no problems", a quick system scan also didn't find any problems.

Scanning my system with Spybot (free edition) however quickly identified the problem. I'm kinda baffled that a pay-to-use Internet Security Suite didn't seem to be able to keep that crap off my system when a free ad-/malware blocker could easily identify it - heck, even I could identify it, since it pretty much identifies itself in those annoying popup-links.

Am I missing some setting in IS2013 here? My definitions are up to date, and I have the suite set to autopilot all the time.

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Since I can't edit my OP, here's an update:

Seems that those text enhance popups/hover-popups were caused by some program called "Lyrics Seeker". I found it installed under "Programs" in the Win8 control panel and as an active extension in Firefox. I have no idea how it got on my PC, since I didn't (actively) install anything today (and the problem only started today). Nor did I visit any shady websites - at least not to my knowledge.

Disabled extension, and the problem was gone. Uninstalled program, hopefully this should end this annoying BS.

I may be naive, but shouldn't a program like IS2013 prevent things like this from happening? At least that's why I bought it in the first place.

*shrug*