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Firefox homepage hijacked by dell.msn.com
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Cannot change homepage on new Dell Laptop in Firefox 3.0.8. Every time i reset the home page it resets to http://dell.msn.com. I have cleared all cookies, uninstalled Windows Live apps with no luck.
I am able to change home page in Explorer but not Firefox.
Any help appreciated.
Cannot change homepage on new Dell Laptop in Firefox 3.0.8. Every time i reset the home page it resets to http://dell.msn.com. I have cleared all cookies, uninstalled Windows Live apps with no luck.
I am able to change home page in Explorer but not Firefox.
Any help appreciated.
I guess clearing all the cookies should do the trick. In any case try to delete all the private information (tools -> clear private data -> tick all the boxes -> clear private data now). If that did not work try to remove firefox and then install it again (download and install the latest version from firefox website)
I would download a program call "Hijack This" from Trend Micro. You can get it from CNET.
Run this program and post the output back to this thread. From there I should be able to tell you which line(s) to check off and select the fix button on. Most likely it is a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that is resetting your home page.
Run this program and post the output back to this thread. From there I should be able to tell you which line(s) to check off and select the fix button on. Most likely it is a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that is resetting your home page.
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Thanks torimar, you nailed the problem.
Steps 1-4 found no joy. Control was regained by manually editing the homepage address in prefs.js. I am guessing this edit fixed a corruption issue in prefs.js file as I can once again change homepage in Firefox preferences.
Steps 1-4 found no joy. Control was regained by manually editing the homepage address in prefs.js. I am guessing this edit fixed a corruption issue in prefs.js file as I can once again change homepage in Firefox preferences.
Hi. I had a similar problem with seeearch.com.
After cleaning my pc with all possible tools, this site was always coming back as home page.
I did not find reference to seeearch.com on your site but found many on other sites and tried about everything without success.
However, the problem was finally solved by deleting two files in <...AppData/roaming/mozill
Both contained only re-directions to seeearch.com...
I had the idea of looking their content afterI reading on this page that prefs.js file might be corrupted.
Then I changed the homepage in prefs.js (which, in my case, was not read-only).
If this might help somebody else...
After cleaning my pc with all possible tools, this site was always coming back as home page.
I did not find reference to seeearch.com on your site but found many on other sites and tried about everything without success.
However, the problem was finally solved by deleting two files in <...AppData/roaming/mozill
Both contained only re-directions to seeearch.com...
I had the idea of looking their content afterI reading on this page that prefs.js file might be corrupted.
Then I changed the homepage in prefs.js (which, in my case, was not read-only).
If this might help somebody else...