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Default search engine is ggo-to.com ? could it be malware

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IlkkaBoe
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Hello, i recently opened my pc and it's default search engine was "ggo-to.com" it could be because it's the family computer, and i had just left my profile running, and someone just got to it thinking it was the public profile, well. Long story short: i now have the default search engine as "ggo-to.com" i tried removing the default, but when i got to the add-ons page, it didn't show ggo-to.com as a add on, it didn't show up at all. Then i looked up how to change the default search engine, i tried that too, but ggo-to didn't show up again... i personally use duckduckgo.com, as the goto search engine, so i tried switching it off, as it could've been a ddg update that i wasn't informed about, but no, the ggo-to search engine still displayed, then i switched google, bing, and search off, and left ddg on, but the excact same, as the last two came. I was very confused, and kinda scared. Have i been possibly pwned? or do i have malware? i really hoped that one of my family members hadn't done that, even on accident. at this point, i went to their website "http://ggo-to.com/?reqp=1&reqr=" (that link may be dangerous, maybe just search it online) web designing 101 i'm 100% sure that this isn't a proper search engine, but instead some sort of scam! i need it off my pc, and i need it off now! please help! thank you

(also, i'm currently using google chrome coz i'm worried of giving the search engine any personal info)

Hello, i recently opened my pc and it's default search engine was "ggo-to.com" it could be because it's the family computer, and i had just left my profile running, and someone just got to it thinking it was the public profile, well. Long story short: i now have the default search engine as "ggo-to.com" i tried removing the default, but when i got to the add-ons page, it didn't show ggo-to.com as a add on, it didn't show up at all. Then i looked up how to change the default search engine, i tried that too, but ggo-to didn't show up again... i personally use duckduckgo.com, as the goto search engine, so i tried switching it off, as it could've been a ddg update that i wasn't informed about, but no, the ggo-to search engine still displayed, then i switched google, bing, and search off, and left ddg on, but the excact same, as the last two came. I was very confused, and kinda scared. Have i been possibly pwned? or do i have malware? i really hoped that one of my family members hadn't done that, even on accident. at this point, i went to their website "http://ggo-to.com/?reqp=1&reqr=" (that link may be dangerous, maybe just search it online) web designing 101 i'm 100% sure that this isn't a proper search engine, but instead some sort of scam! i need it off my pc, and i need it off now! please help! thank you (also, i'm currently using google chrome coz i'm worried of giving the search engine any personal info)

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McCoy
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Hello IIkkaboe,

I haven't been able to find any information about that "search engine".

It sure sounds like you've picked up some malware.

Would you do this please :

Go to the Firefox menu (≡) => Add-ons => Extensions and remove anything that looks unfamiliar or suspicious.

Do the same in Windows Control Panel.

Next step : run malwarescans - further information can be found in this article :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware?cache=no

Run most or all of the listed malware scanners.
They all work differently - what one program doesn't pick up, the other might.

Any luck ?