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MyHeritage.com has hijacked your browser on my desktop commputer. How can I get back to your browser as my default?

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ronweed
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I recently downloaded MyHeritage software for creation of a family tree. Unknown to me and without my permission, My Heritage hijacked and made itself the default browser on my computer replacing the Mozilla firefox browser that I have used for several years. I uninstalled the MyHeritage software from my computer but their browser remained as my default when I launch Firefox. Can you help me get rid of this intrusive problem and restore my default browser to Mozilla Firefox? Thank you, Ron Weed

I recently downloaded MyHeritage software for creation of a family tree. Unknown to me and without my permission, My Heritage hijacked and made itself the default browser on my computer replacing the Mozilla firefox browser that I have used for several years. I uninstalled the MyHeritage software from my computer but their browser remained as my default when I launch Firefox. Can you help me get rid of this intrusive problem and restore my default browser to Mozilla Firefox? Thank you, Ron Weed

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the-edmeister
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"Default browser" or is MyHeritage.com set as your Homepage in Firefox?
Windows7 has the Default Browser setting under Control Panel > Programs >> Default Programs - Set Default Programs -- Set Program Associations.

If the later, have you tried resetting your Homepage in Firefox?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page

amyhavens
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MyHeritage is a super sneaky program, which I suppose is more of an irritant than anything else, but WHAT an irritant! Like walking through a nest of newly hatched ticks!

After uninstalling, I had to troll through my C: drive>program files and find more bits and pieces there and remove them.

I tried the revo uninstaller, but by then I had gotten most of it out of my computer, but not all!

I found that it was hiding as my home page in my computer, even though I had changed it with mozilla.I have Windows 7 and went to control panel>network and internet>internet options>change you home page. I switched this to my igoogle, but you can make it whatever you want.

Lastly, it had also hijacked my keyword.URL in the firefox address bar. I had to go to about:config ( a scary and very serious computery place and fix the keyword.url there.)

It seems gone now, but I'm not counting my chickens yet.