Yahoo Search Engine Virus

[Bob Lives! 952]

I use Google Chrome.  Somehow my default search engine is constantly getting changed from Google to Yahoo.  I hate Yahoo! Their search engine sucks.  How do I stop this from happening?  And yes, I've Googled it. And "yahoo'd" it too. I don't see a good, easy answer.  I see some complicated answers, none of which seem to work. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

[markstanco 12786]

Stop clicking on every link you see grandpa

[Baboontyme 2883]

You probably downloaded something that came with an "add on" of Yahoo search that you didn't notice to uncheck during installation. Delete it, and download it again but this time pay attention during installation and uncheck the box. 

[Updawg 2385]

You probably downloaded something that came with an "add on" of Yahoo search that you didn't notice to uncheck during installation. Delete it, and download it again but this time pay attention during installation and uncheck the box. 

Probably this

Go look for unusual stuff in the extensions in chrome

[Handcruser 2815]

Yeah it’s a virus. Hard to get rid of.

Download 1 or 2 anti virus trial freebies
Shut down
Start in safe mode
Delete chrome (uninstall)
Go in settings and delete an apps you don’t recognize
Shut down
Restart in safe mode
Run AV utilities
Shut down
Restart in normal mode
Download chrome

Repeat if necessary

[HornOnTheBayou 9062]

On 6/22/2021 at 1:00 PM, Bob Lives! said:

And yes, I've Googled it. And "yahoo'd" it too.

Have you tried Ask Jeeves?

[Baboontyme 2883]

We're an Alta Vista house here. Former Lycos converts. 

[WhatTheBuck 28929]

You could always use Bing.

Honestly, though, what’s your problem with Yahoo? How many times have you tested the same search on Google and Yahoo and found the results to be that different? You can always tell when someone searched via Google when they post a link that starts with the google.com domain. Yahoo doesn’t do that.

The internet was better before Google. Lycos used to be just fine. 

[CooterBrown 18288]

Webcrawler FTMFW.

[South Austin 53222]

My library’s card catalogue is all fucked up.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10803]

You can skip steps #3 & #4 (unless you still have issues after following the other steps completely):

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/yahoo-toolbar-removal/

 

[dcbc 14644]

Might try running malwarebytes as well.  When you download it, name the file "explorer.exe" just in case the malware in question has something in there that blocks the installation file for MWB

[Judge Roybeanbag 11860]

It's the ghost of John McAfee.

[High Plains Drifter 11187]

 

duckduckgo for the win

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28929]

On 6/24/2021 at 7:53 AM, CooterBrown said:

Webcrawler FTMFW.

Every website has a unique numerical IP address. Cataloguing them by searching out every possible IP address makes a lot of sense. More so than giving any kind of preference to websites that pay you to appear at the top of your search results or the ones that are visited most frequently, which are frequently the same ones. Go figure.

Seems like nobody surfs anymore.