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mopinko

(69,803 posts)
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:24 PM Jun 2016

my search engine has been hijacked.

i had been using google. out of nowhere, it became bing. the search setting in safari was still set to google.
then it became yahoo. is there a worse search engine out there? i cant believe there is.
tried setting it to duckduckgo, but no.

is there another setting beside the safari preference, or do i have some malware somewhere?

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my search engine has been hijacked. (Original Post) mopinko Jun 2016 OP
Malwarebytes for Mac is free ... eppur_se_muova Jun 2016 #1
yeah!! mopinko Jun 2016 #2

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
1. Malwarebytes for Mac is free ...
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 01:33 PM
Jun 2016

... IIRC it will scan on demand, but not continuously in background. Probably you have downloaded a toolbar without knowing it; MWB is good at finding such.

https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/

For real-time protection I use Avast, which still supports 10.6 and is likewise free.

https://www.avast.com/en-us/free-mac-security

Unfortunately, there are some files which Avast cannont scan !

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