Google.ie as homepage

Maidhci

Following on recent Windows 7 updates, my browser homepage keeps reverting to Yahoo and I am unable to reset it Google, which was the setting, prior to downloading updates.

Google Chrome continues to be the search engine. I have tried this via the Settings Options ..... On Startup .... open the new tab page AND open specific page, which is set to google.ie. Also, google is set as Home Page.

Can anyone please help or advise what to do here. Many thanks.

Ant695

Have you got a yahoo toolbar installed? If so it's possible that a feature of it is make yahoo homepage and you would need to remove the toolbar.

ThisRegard

Check out if you've had any new toolbar extensions or programs installed. I've seen this before when there was a new malware program installed which showed the same symptoms you have. Of course I can't remember the name of it now but if you go to Add-Remove programs and sort your installed program list by Date descending you might see something that's not right.

NBCPass

Do a scan with http://www.malwarebytes.org to ensure you do not have malware. Also, check your list of install programs and ensure that you do not have any toolbars installed.

Maidhci

Ant695 wrote: »

Have you got a yahoo toolbar installed? If so it's possible that a feature of it is make yahoo homepage and you would need to remove the toolbar.

No, I do not have a Yahoo toolbar installed. Thanks for suggestion.

Maidhci

NBCPass wrote: »

Do a scan with http://www.malwarebytes.org to ensure you do not have malware. Also, check your list of install programs and ensure that you do not have any toolbars installed.

Running malwarebytes was my first port of call - it identified some PUMs and PUPs, which I disabled. Will check list of installed programmes later to see what has been recently installed etc. etc.

As a matter of interest, do PUPs and PUMs, which have been disabled by malwarebytes, but not removed, show up as installed programs? Thanks.

Maidhci

ThisRegard wrote: »

Check out if you've had any new toolbar extensions or programs installed. I've seen this before when there was a new malware program installed which showed the same symptoms you have. Of course I can't remember the name of it now but if you go to Add-Remove programs and sort your installed program list by Date descending you might see something that's not right.

Thanks for this - I am not sure how to check if new toolbar extensions have been added - does it show up in installed programs? Thanks.

ThisRegard

If you go to chrome://extensions/ it will show what extensions you have and if they're enabled or disabled.

Worth checking your installed programs first.

The Black Oil

A toolbar would be an obvious suspect alright. iirc, the likes of McAfee gets bundled with some Adobe stuff. I installed Unchecky on my mother's PC to stop junk being installed.

Sometimes extensions are in the browser's settings. In Firefox, it's Tools - Add-ons - Extensions. If in Chrome, put chrome://extensions/ into the address bar.

robbie67

download and run adwcleaner it will tell if your browser had being hijacked

MiskyBoyy

robbie67 wrote:

download and run adwcleaner it will tell if your browser had being hijacked

Adwcleaner, Usually the best job for me.