home page keeps changing
when i open firefox it comes up with the home page http://www.apype.com/ ive changed it back to www.yahoo.com several times but when i close fire fox out it resets it back to that webpage. Ive reset fire fox and it did nothing. how can i keep it from changing. ive ran two spyware/malware programs.
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If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Preferences+are+not+saved
You can check for problems with the preferences and if necessary delete the prefs.js file and a possible user.js file to reset all prefs.
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
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 their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Microsoft Safety Scanner
- 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
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked