after a malware attack last week that rewrote my registers I had to restart from a restore point. The problem is now when firefox wants to update, it want to use the site that contains malware. I need to reset it to the proper site how do I do this?
My son was using the cpu at the time of the first attack. He got it cleared out and working. A day later it hit again when I was using the computer. As soon as I saw the fake virus scan I brought up taskmaster and stopped it. Almost immediately it started running again so I stopped it a second time. When I did, it shut down windows explorer. The only thing that would run was the malware. I brought it up at a restore point and it ran normally. This cycle has been repeated several times.
Both Avast and SpybotSD will find and delete the malware, and both of these update normally. I think that when firefox updates itself, it is requesting data from a malware site rater than from you. How do I reset this?
My son was using the cpu at the time of the first attack. He got it cleared out and working. A day later it hit again when I was using the computer. As soon as I saw the fake virus scan I brought up taskmaster and stopped it. Almost immediately it started running again so I stopped it a second time. When I did, it shut down windows explorer. The only thing that would run was the malware. I brought it up at a restore point and it ran normally. This cycle has been repeated several times.
Both Avast and SpybotSD will find and delete the malware, and both of these update normally. I think that when firefox updates itself, it is requesting data from a malware site rater than from you. How do I reset this?
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Try this:
- Go to Tools | Options | Advanced and click the Network tab.
- In the Offline Storage menu, click the Clear Now button.
- In the location bar, type about:config and hit Enter.
- In the filter at the top, type: keyword.URL
- Double click it and remove whatever's in there. You'll see it revert to "Default" and "String".
- Go to File | Exit
- Restart Firefox and go to the page you want to set as your homepage
- Go to Tools | Options | General.
- Make sure it says "Show My Homepage" in the first dropdown menu.
- Click the button called "Use Current Pages" to set the homepage to the one you have on the screen.