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Firefox - hijacked home page
I was looking at some software and a pop-up asked if I wanted
Yahoo to be my default search engine. I thought I said "NO" but
somehow I must not have ticked all the boxes.
Now when I bring up Firefox (27.0.1, XP) it presents
a Yahoo search page instead of my Google Home Page.
I reviewed the way to stop this and tried it. Tools --> Options -->
Use Current Page. And that works until I close Firefox and re-open it.
Then the damn Yahoo page rears its ugly head. Something is over-ridding
the Firefox setting.
How can I get my Google Home Page back?
Yahoo to be my default search engine. I thought I said "NO" but
somehow I must not have ticked all the boxes.
Now when I bring up Firefox (27.0.1, XP) it presents
a Yahoo search page instead of my Google Home Page.
I reviewed the way to stop this and tried it. Tools --> Options -->
Use Current Page. And that works until I close Firefox and re-open it.
Then the damn Yahoo page rears its ugly head. Something is over-ridding
the Firefox setting.
How can I get my Google Home Page back?
You could restore your PC to an earlier time, and thus solve this problem quickly and easily.
Recommended method: Boot up in safe mode with command prompt and type rstrui.exe to open the restore GUI and restore.
Recommended method: Boot up in safe mode with command prompt and type rstrui.exe to open the restore GUI and restore.
goolge using the "about:config" to reset the home page to default in mozilla
ASKER
I do run several mal-ware programs, but this is the result of my not checking
the correct box so it's probably not malware but rather a sneaky place to
hide Yahoo that's not easily found.
I do have a check-point system, so I could go back about 10 days, but would loose data
and, worse, a recent MS system update I applied. Rather not do that.
In years past I have made some specific changes to the .js files so I would
be comfortable doing that IF one of them has the Yahoo data stored in it somewhere.
I looked at prefs.js and did not see anything relating to Home Pages or Yahoo.
Does anyone know what .js file might have the offending data?
the correct box so it's probably not malware but rather a sneaky place to
hide Yahoo that's not easily found.
I do have a check-point system, so I could go back about 10 days, but would loose data
and, worse, a recent MS system update I applied. Rather not do that.
In years past I have made some specific changes to the .js files so I would
be comfortable doing that IF one of them has the Yahoo data stored in it somewhere.
I looked at prefs.js and did not see anything relating to Home Pages or Yahoo.
Does anyone know what .js file might have the offending data?
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Great. You fixed it. :-)
ASKER
It worked is the reason it's a good solution.
FYI:
"I do have a check-point system, so I could go back about 10 days, but would loose data..."
NOT true.
Using a Windows backup restores the SYSTEM files to a previous point in time. It does not affect data files.
"I do have a check-point system, so I could go back about 10 days, but would loose data..."
NOT true.
Using a Windows backup restores the SYSTEM files to a previous point in time. It does not affect data files.
Else look in software for recently installed unwanted software.
Last would be to search the registry for the URL and adjust it.
In all ways i recommend scanning the machine for malware with a tool like malwarebytes.