changing default search provider to google
Question Hi I need urgent help! When I type into the address bar to search for something, the search is done through mywebsearch. I hate mywebsearch and I know I have to go to keyword.url and reset it, and it will go back to google. It used to work. However, now, after I reset keyword.url and search from the address bar, the first search is conducted through google but it immediately revert back to mywebsearch and i get so irritated!! I have tried this sooo many times but it does not work! Please help me!
Additional System Details
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
these few days
Installed Plug-ins
- MindSpark Toolbar Platform Plugin Stub for 32-bit Windows
- Google Update
- Version 2.4.6.4433
- Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator version:0.1.44.13
- Shockwave Flash 10.3 r183
- 4.0.60831.0
- Version 1.1.11, copyright 1996-2011 The VideoLAN Teamhttp://www.videolan.org/
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.4.5"
- GEPlugin
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_26 for Mozilla browsers
- NPWLPG
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.8.612
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
More Information
My Websearch is a Adware, Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and Searches are redirected to another site
My Websearch is a Adware, Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and Searches are redirected to another site