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webbarsearch.com is hijacking my search engines in Mozilla.

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webbars search is hijacking search engines in Mozilla. AVG have suggested some files deleted but to no avail. Problem is only in Mozilla and not IE. All addons disabled. no saved cookies. See 'webbarsearch' in avg forums. further files deleted following hard drives search but to no avail.

webbars search is hijacking search engines in Mozilla. AVG have suggested some files deleted but to no avail. Problem is only in Mozilla and not IE. All addons disabled. no saved cookies. See 'webbarsearch' in avg forums. further files deleted following hard drives search but to no avail.

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Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. 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 the database before doing a scan.

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website