How to kill Yahoo?

Posted by: Mark J on 26 September 2009

In brief...downloaded AVG 8.5, didn't like it so uninstalled and d/l Avira free. Much better but but now whenever I search the net the results page says 'search results secured by AVG' and hosted by Yahoo?

I wouldn't mind but Google is the better search engine IMO. Anyone know how to revert the PC back to straight google search via Firefox?

Cheers

Posted on: 26 September 2009 by Jim Lawson

Step 1
Firefox
Go to [Installation Directory]\searchplugins

Step 2
Delete Yahoo.gif & Yahoo.src

Step 3
Restart your browser

Posted on: 26 September 2009 by Mark J

Thanks Jim but cant find yahoo anything to delete.

Posted on: 26 September 2009 by Jim Lawson

OK. What is listed there?

Posted on: 27 September 2009 by Mark J

quote:
Originally posted by Jim Lawson:
OK. What is listed there?

loads of add ons but nothing remotely yahoo. Its an AVG thing i feel...somehow that poxy anti-virus package has seized and usurped google on firefox 3.5.

these things are sent to try us i suppose...

Posted on: 27 September 2009 by Roy T

mark J, an idea that may be worth following is provided by Sun 1, Sun 2.

I would also suggest that you keep an eye upon your Super Flash Cookies as they too can be a problem.

A few days ago I fixed my uncle's FireFox system that was being plagued by a casino that had hijacked his Firefox home page. His cookies looked safe and untouched as FireFox deletes them at the end of each session so I then examined the so called Super Flash Cookies via the FireFox addon BetterPrivacy. This addon showed that 317 flash cookies were hiding in the Macromedia associated folders, I removed them and his system recovered.

I now have things set to allow no flavour of cookies to be carried over between sessions and he once more has a system that works as we intended.