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Safari Yahoo problems

I have Safari Version 12.0.2 on a MacBook Air using High Sierra 10.13.6.


I seem to have got one of those viruses/bugs that redirects my Google searches to Yahoo, be that from Google as a website or from a search term that I type directly into the browser's address bar.


Google remains set as the default browser - so this is not a case of that.


What is more, I have no extensions at all, and so there is nothing that I can do to delete them, since I do not have any.


Beyond that, I have tried the Go To ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist and removed com.apple.Safari.plist and others like it... in a bid then to quit Safari and to relaunch it.


Except that Safari relaunches on its own, which I think therefore must be part of the bug/virus that does not allow me to remove it.


So... any help would be warmly appreciated. Especially if it does not mean that I have to spend money, since I am kind of penniless right now.


With best wishes


William

MacBook Air 13", 10.13

Posted on Feb 13, 2019 1:18 PM

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Posted on Feb 13, 2019 1:51 PM

Try downloading this program which was written by Thomas R, a long time poster. The program will search for malware/adware The program will do the work for you which makes it easy. 




Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac      10.10 and later




Malwarebytes uninstall

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Feb 13, 2019 1:51 PM in response to wjrcbrown

Try downloading this program which was written by Thomas R, a long time poster. The program will search for malware/adware The program will do the work for you which makes it easy. 




Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac      10.10 and later




Malwarebytes uninstall

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