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How to remove Mcafee Secure Search from the default Firefox search engines?

user213889120097818072919664491473920244905
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I think the question is self explanatory. But, When I installed Mcafee Total Protection a long while ago, I think it put a secure search thing into my search engine list, and when I remove it, the option to "Restore Defaults" becomes clickable and if I click it, Mcafee's Secure Search is brought back??? How can I fix this? Please help it's pretty annoying, as I don't like Mcafee.

P.S. "Resetting Firefox" didn't work.

Here is a screenshot of the issue: http://gyazo.com/441b6a4b24bdd156ca0229fe28451cb6

I think the question is self explanatory. But, When I installed Mcafee Total Protection a long while ago, I think it put a secure search thing into my search engine list, and when I remove it, the option to "Restore Defaults" becomes clickable and if I click it, Mcafee's Secure Search is brought back??? How can I fix this? Please help it's pretty annoying, as I don't like Mcafee. P.S. "Resetting Firefox" didn't work. Here is a screenshot of the issue: http://gyazo.com/441b6a4b24bdd156ca0229fe28451cb6

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After digging around a bit I found the solution, I had to delete "McSiteAdvisor" located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins. Hope this helps anyone having a similar problem :)

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user213889120097818072919664491473920244905 Mwenye swali
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After digging around a bit I found the solution, I had to delete "McSiteAdvisor" located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins. Hope this helps anyone having a similar problem :)