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how come yahool appears on your page and how to get rid of it

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When firefox opens and I go to a site, a fake Yahool appears and says site is corrupt. How to fix it to get rid of the fake yahoo

When firefox opens and I go to a site, a fake Yahool appears and says site is corrupt. How to fix it to get rid of the fake yahoo

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hi, this sound like an issue that may be caused by adware/malware that's active on the system, so please perform all these steps:

  1. reset firefox (this will keep your bookmarks and passwords)
  2. afterwards go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > extensions and in case there are still extensions listed there, disable them.
  3. finally run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the free version of malwarebytes and adwcleaner to make sure that adware isn't present in other places of your system as well.

Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware