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Yahoo responses appear with all google searchs

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it keeps switching to yahoo even though google is set in mozilla firefox as my default homepage

it keeps switching to yahoo even though google is set in mozilla firefox as my default homepage

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Hi  ! Yahoo Search is a legitimate search engine, but you may be dealing with search.yahoo.com redirect virus, malware that you of course want to get rid of.

Go to the 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Addons => Extensions and look for
any unfamiliar or suspicious looking extensions.

When you find any : remove them.

Do the same in Windows' Control Panel.

However : most malware will be 'hiding' somewhere , so let's run malware scans :

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.

Also see : https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/8835-search-yahoo-com-redirect