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At least once a week, Firefox changes my default search engine and my default homepage. How can I prevent this from happening. I am not changing these.

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When this happens, I must go into preferences and change these back to what I want. I am using the "remove" search engine button but obviously it is not a permanent change. I manually type in the homepage, but it is not a permanent change either.

When this happens, I must go into preferences and change these back to what I want. I am using the "remove" search engine button but obviously it is not a permanent change. I manually type in the homepage, but it is not a permanent change either.

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Hello jbszumow,

It's browser hijacking malware.

To fix this issue you:

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What is the default search engine and default homepage getting changed to?

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The default homepage was changed to: https://goto-searchitnow.global.ssl.fastly.net/

and the default search engine was changed to: https://www.bing.com/

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This happened again today, same as the post on 1/14/19

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Hello jbszumow,

It's browser hijacking malware.

To fix this issue you:

Modified by Mick

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Thank you! I completed the above steps and will see if it happens again.

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If this turns out to have fixed your problem please mark the reply that solved your problem as the solution :)

Modified by Mick

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Thanks again, the steps I followed that you gave me solved the problem. It has not happened again in 2 weeks time!