It appears my search engines (Google, Bing and possibly others) have been hijacked by something called GOODTASKSEARCH. 的最新解答https://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/questions/9136912012-01-19T08:16:23-08:00I saw that article before I posted my question. At your suggestion, I reread it and then downloaded2012-01-19T08:16:23-08:00fayh2007https://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/questions/913691#answer-300662<p>I saw that article before I posted my question. At your suggestion, I reread it and then downloaded, and ran, the 'Malwarebytes' free program listed in the article. This 'free anti-malware' program does NOT actually do any system scanning. The closest it comes to actually 'scanning' for malware is, it checks your system to see if you have a good anti-malware system running. Period. So, it told me that I have McAfee and that it is up and running, all secure (which I already knew). The only real system scanning it does is to check for registry errors, junk files, etc. Then if you click 'repair' it repairs a small percentage of them and asks you for money, if you want to repair all of them. No thanks.
</p><pre> I suppose I could go out there into the big wide web and start looking for other free anti-malware programs, and start running one after another. But let me ask a follow-up question: If I UNINSTALL and then REINSTALL Firefox would that solve the problem? Or is it likely that the malware will still be lurking on my system?
Has anyone out there actually been hijacked by GOODTASKSEARCH? They are apparently one of many pseudonyms of something called LIGHTSSEARCH.
Thank you very much for your time.
</pre>Hi fayh2007,
Your issue may be because you've been hit with some Malware. There is some good informa2012-01-19T02:34:22-08:00Matt_Ghttps://support.mozilla.org/zh-TW/questions/913691#answer-300496<p>Hi fayh2007,
</p><p>Your issue may be because you've been hit with some <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Is%20my%20Firefox%20problem%20a%20result%20of%20malware?s=malware&amp;r=0&amp;e=sph&amp;as=s#w_how-do-i-get-rid-of-malware" rel="nofollow">Malware</a>. There is some good information in that article to help you neutralize it.
</p><p>Hopefully this helps!
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