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Peppertree
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Hello, I appreciate you being here to help. Thank you. I use Firefox 8 on my Windows 7 PC. I keep setting my homepage http://www.google.co.uk/ but it keeps reverting to http://www.searchqu.com/406 by itself. This is annoying. I read in the Firefox help something about malware, but can’t readily see how to fix this problem. I've no idea where this address came from or where it’s held. I don't recognise the address at all. Can you help? Many thanks. Bob.

Hello, I appreciate you being here to help. Thank you. I use Firefox 8 on my Windows 7 PC. I keep setting my homepage http://www.google.co.uk/ but it keeps reverting to http://www.searchqu.com/406 by itself. This is annoying. I read in the Firefox help something about malware, but can’t readily see how to fix this problem. I've no idea where this address came from or where it’s held. I don't recognise the address at all. Can you help? Many thanks. Bob.

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Swarnava Sengupta
Swarnava Sengupta
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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.

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and Searches are redirected to another site

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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See this search of other questions about searchqu/406 in this forum.