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Why does my search engine for searching via address bar keep changing?

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Ever 2-3 days after i change the search engine for searching via address bar to google it goes back to suchsmachine? how do i change this permanently to google?

Ever 2-3 days after i change the search engine for searching via address bar to google it goes back to suchsmachine? how do i change this permanently to google?

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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