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anthony
Although I'm armed, thanks to this group's great advice, with the best
malware, spyware, Trojan detection devices etc, I find myself unable
to eradicate the malign commercial intervention of 'ask.com' which
seems at regular intervals to hijack my Firefox browser and launch
into its own search engine, even when I do something so seemingly
straightforward as type in one of my favourite sites, www.imdb.com.
In desperation I downloaded the new Google browser. Searched in the
Google addresss bar (as per instructions) weather for my region of
Australia, and up came ... yes, Ask.com. Not even my preferred search-
engine, Google, which I would have thought would have been the
automatic default option for the Google browser.
Has anyone found a way to rid themselves of this pesky bit of unwanted
software? I did follow instructions to reset Firefox's preferred
search URL, and that worked for about a week -- then ask.com bounced
back.
Here's the instructions I found on the Net for clearing Ask.com from
Firefox -- if anyone has more lasting suggestions, I'd be grateful. I
have searched Firefox's own Help files and found recommendations to go
into their Chrome file and delete certain files -- I looked, and the
files they named weren't there.
1. Open a new tab or window.
2. Type “about:config” and hit enter, this brings up the all powerful
settings of Firefox.
3. Agree to the warning that you could mess things up
4. Find keyword.url, you probably should not change anything else
5. Double click and change keyword.url string to something else like
http://www.google.com/search?q=
malware, spyware, Trojan detection devices etc, I find myself unable
to eradicate the malign commercial intervention of 'ask.com' which
seems at regular intervals to hijack my Firefox browser and launch
into its own search engine, even when I do something so seemingly
straightforward as type in one of my favourite sites, www.imdb.com.
In desperation I downloaded the new Google browser. Searched in the
Google addresss bar (as per instructions) weather for my region of
Australia, and up came ... yes, Ask.com. Not even my preferred search-
engine, Google, which I would have thought would have been the
automatic default option for the Google browser.
Has anyone found a way to rid themselves of this pesky bit of unwanted
software? I did follow instructions to reset Firefox's preferred
search URL, and that worked for about a week -- then ask.com bounced
back.
Here's the instructions I found on the Net for clearing Ask.com from
Firefox -- if anyone has more lasting suggestions, I'd be grateful. I
have searched Firefox's own Help files and found recommendations to go
into their Chrome file and delete certain files -- I looked, and the
files they named weren't there.
1. Open a new tab or window.
2. Type “about:config” and hit enter, this brings up the all powerful
settings of Firefox.
3. Agree to the warning that you could mess things up
4. Find keyword.url, you probably should not change anything else
5. Double click and change keyword.url string to something else like
http://www.google.com/search?q=