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Can i remove yahoo search engine or is it part of Firefox now?!

rhian
rhian
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Hi there I got a new lap-top and i installed the latest version of MF on it. However i want to use Google as my main and only search engine but I cannot get rid of yahoo. No matter what i do - go into the search engine choices, delete programmes etc i cannot get rid of it. I just looked on previousl questions and there is an article by MF from Dec 14 that says yahoo is now the default search engine with MF!! Is that right? If i just go to the basic search engine settings and delete yahoo it still comes back!! Its driving me crazy. I don't want to revert to google chrome but i prob will have to unless i can get rid of yahoo. I also have something called vi-view search engine which i can't get rid of either. I'm wondering if that is making yahoo come up or not? Please can anyone tell me how to sort this once and for all so i only have Google and I can delete Yahoo forever? I do not have expert pc knowledge; i am just a member of public who has liked MF so far till this. thanks

Hi there I got a new lap-top and i installed the latest version of MF on it. However i want to use Google as my main and only search engine but I cannot get rid of yahoo. No matter what i do - go into the search engine choices, delete programmes etc i cannot get rid of it. I just looked on previousl questions and there is an article by MF from Dec 14 that says yahoo is now the default search engine with MF!! Is that right? If i just go to the basic search engine settings and delete yahoo it still comes back!! Its driving me crazy. I don't want to revert to google chrome but i prob will have to unless i can get rid of yahoo. I also have something called vi-view search engine which i can't get rid of either. I'm wondering if that is making yahoo come up or not? Please can anyone tell me how to sort this once and for all so i only have Google and I can delete Yahoo forever? I do not have expert pc knowledge; i am just a member of public who has liked MF so far till this. thanks

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philipp
philipp
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hello, yes you can remove yahoo like any other search engine - you appear to have some adware present in your profile, which might interfere here, so i'd recommend the following steps:

  1. refresh 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 Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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See this - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-bar-add-change-manage-search-engines-firefox - to learn how to use the new Search Bar that came with the Firefox 34 version.

Scroll down to Remove search engines to see how to remove that Yahoo search engine.

As far as that vi-view search goes, see this - http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-myhome-vi-view-com-virus/ - to see how that can be removed. That didn't come with Firefox or from Mozilla, so as philipp said, you probably picked up a dose of Malware along the way. 

"Myhome.vi-view.com probably got on your computer after you have installed a freeware software (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) that had bundled into their installation this browser hijacker. "