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How can I remove MediaTV tv maleware? I tried all the suggested anti-spyware progrmas and refreshing Firefox. It was installed when I downloaed Firefox.

When using Firefox in either search tab, mediaTV hijacks the search engine and uses myfirst tab. I tried three anti-maleware programs recommended to remove this with no success, and also refreshed Firefox. This is a new install and showd up after downloading Firefox from the Mozilla page before anything else was downloaded.

When using Firefox in either search tab, mediaTV hijacks the search engine and uses myfirst tab. I tried three anti-maleware programs recommended to remove this with no success, and also refreshed Firefox. This is a new install and showd up after downloading Firefox from the Mozilla page before anything else was downloaded.

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Have you install malwarebytes? www.malwarebytes.com, run a scan and removed everything it found?

Your system details show that you have this add-on installed :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/weather-forecast11/?src=rating

This is what one of the two reviews says (the other one says pretty much the same) :

"After installing this add-on, I began having Google searches redirected to Yahoo. Yahoo was deleted from my list of search engines long ago, so assumed that this had come about as a result of something snuck into some software. I uninstalled the add-on and the redirects stopped. I have concluded that the redirects were linked to the add-on. If I am mistaken, I welcome an alternative explanation from the creators of the add-on."

So, please go to Options => Add-ons => Extensions and remove the add-on, and everything should be back to normal.

The "Easy Video Downloader" extension just updated a week ago, so if the problem started after that, you might try disabling that one, too.