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No matter what I click I get safesearch. I want it gone

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While I was viewing a news page a screen popped on called safesearch. Now no matter where I click on my desktop short cuts it opens this 'safesearch' page. I cant even get my firefox to open only 'safesearch'

While I was viewing a news page a screen popped on called safesearch. Now no matter where I click on my desktop short cuts it opens this 'safesearch' page. I cant even get my firefox to open only 'safesearch'

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This could be an issue caused by AdAware or Web Companion from Lavasoft.

You can look for a file named dsengine.js in these locations. You should only find channel-prefs.js in the "defaults\pref" location. Any file found here apart from channel-prefs.js is suspicious. You can check the content of the file in a text editor (use open with and do not double-click the file).

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\ C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\

You can look for a file named dsengine.cfg in the main Firefox program folder.

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\

Delete the dsengine.js and dsengine.cfg files when present.

Search for Programs and Features, delete programs that you do not know

San with https://www.malwarebytes.com/ & https://www.adlice.com/download/roguekiller/ Portable

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