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Why is it when I put a search in Firefox, it comes up Netfind? Not good.

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When Netfind shows the results of my search, it doesn't answer my search objective. Why doesn't firefox take me to my search results?

When Netfind shows the results of my search, it doesn't answer my search objective. Why doesn't firefox take me to my search results?

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Hi,

Netfind.com is a browser hijacker, malware that you will 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 your system's 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 : http://www.besttechtips.org/how-to-remove-netfind-com/

and also : http://www.2-remove-virus.com/remove-netfind-com/

Especially for Mac : https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/