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Bing has 'invaded' my computer and substituted itself as the search engine with Firefox - I do not want Bing!

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Lovelife
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I have for many years used Firefox with Google as the search engine.

Today out of the blue Bing appeared as the search engine - without me manually changing anything.

I want to use Google as my preferred search engine

It seems that Bing has invaded as a malware would perhaps on the back of some other invasive add on or similar.

I have gone to options and settings and after removing Bing (supposedly) it reappears when I do a search.

Very frustrating for an occasional user.

I have for many years used Firefox with Google as the search engine. Today out of the blue Bing appeared as the search engine - without me manually changing anything. I want to use Google as my preferred search engine It seems that Bing has invaded as a malware would perhaps on the back of some other invasive add on or similar. I have gone to options and settings and after removing Bing (supposedly) it reappears when I do a search. Very frustrating for an occasional user.

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FFus3r
FFus3r
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go to tools > options > search

and choose a search engine from the drop down menu under Default Search Engine

FFus3r
FFus3r
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or remove any search engines extensions

cor-el
cor-el
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This could be an issue caused by AdAware or Web Companion from Lavasoft.

You can look for a file named dsengine.js in these locations. There should only be channel-prefs.js in this location, any other file present is suspicious and you can check its content in a plain text editor to see what file it points to. 

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\

You can look for a file named dsengine.cfg in the main Firefox program folder. 

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\

Delete the dsengine.js and dsengine.cfg files when present.

Modified by cor-el