I clicked into this website and it changed my homepage (and Ive done everything I know how to do) and it wont go back to yahoo as my homepage (and yes Ive went through yahoo and set it as my homepage). Right now Im scanning my computer to see if its spyware. Is it something serious? I have deleted my history, cookies, passwords, everything I could possibly think of. Please help!!
2007-10-10 15:17:45 · 6 answers · asked by Melissa A 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Just go to the control panel,click on internet options, type in www.yahoo.com select apply and then close.
2007-10-10 15:27:34 · answer #1 · answered by doc_holliday1863 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like you've had your browser hi-jacked by adware/spyware. If after you've done a full scan you still cannot find the problem, you may want to try CWShredder. Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch – the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackers– from your PC.
Here's the link..
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/personal/CWShredder/
Click the yellow "Remove CoolWebSearch" button and it will download CWShredder to your computer. Just save the file somewhere on your computer and double click it to run the program. It will quickly search your computer for CWS and remove it if it's there. It only takes a minute or two. You'll probably want to keep CWShredder somewhere on your computer for future scans should this happen again.
2007-10-10 15:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by TheDougmeister 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
on the search engine bar click the down arrow. Then click take care of seek for engines. convey google to the proper of the record. i trust google is the default homepage of Firefox. click equipment, concepts, major and fix to default.
2016-10-09 00:12:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just continue scanning it with an ant-spyware program. most likely it is an adware. run a full system virus scan too after your ant-spyware scanning
2007-10-10 15:23:02 · answer #4 · answered by zeven77 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
SuperAntiSpyware will get rid of this for you and comes with 'homepage hijack protection' so that your home page will stay as you set it.
SuperAntiSpyware (free)
http://www.superantispyware.com/
2007-10-10 15:47:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats happened to me before I had to restore my computer w/ the disk it came w/ when I bought it to fix that problem.
2007-10-10 15:22:10 · answer #6 · answered by Death Girl Am 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋