At least once a week, Firefox changes my default search engine and my default homepage. How can I prevent this from happening. I am not changing these.
When this happens, I must go into preferences and change these back to what I want. I am using the "remove" search engine button but obviously it is not a permanent change. I manually type in the homepage, but it is not a permanent change either.
Chosen solution
Hello jbszumow,
It's browser hijacking malware.
To fix this issue you:
- Download malwarebytes from www.malwarebytes.com and do a full scan
- Delete everything it finds
- Refresh Firefox: Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings
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What is the default search engine and default homepage getting changed to?
The default homepage was changed to: https://goto-searchitnow.global.ssl.fastly.net/
and the default search engine was changed to: https://www.bing.com/
This happened again today, same as the post on 1/14/19
Chosen Solution
Hello jbszumow,
It's browser hijacking malware.
To fix this issue you:
- Download malwarebytes from www.malwarebytes.com and do a full scan
- Delete everything it finds
- Refresh Firefox: Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings
Modified by Mick
Thank you! I completed the above steps and will see if it happens again.
If this turns out to have fixed your problem please mark the reply that solved your problem as the solution :)
Modified by Mick
Thanks again, the steps I followed that you gave me solved the problem. It has not happened again in 2 weeks time!