Yandex search engine

Eric Root wrote:

Something has been installed.

Just to be a smartass, that's a statement of the obvious! LOL

Looked at extensions before even posting the original message. Nothing in Extensions.

If I had to guess on a timeframe, something went awry when Apple added Yandex to certain iOS7 devices in 2013.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/06/11/apple-yandex-ios-7-russia/

Which Mac OS I was running at the time I have no idea.

When I found the webpage saying Apple had added it to iOS 7, I figured it was legitimate.

If it was downloaded and installed with something else, then there must be a way to remove it. I checked it out when I spotted it. When I found everything was in some foreign language, using a Cyrillilc (I think) alphabet, I knew something was up.

But I can't seem anything on the web about how to do it.

That's the first thing I did. I downloaded the latest and greatest. The scan came up clean.

Which is what it should do if it's legitimate. It's not logical that scanning multiple times will make any difference. I'm still in the 14 day free trial period.

I'll run it again in a few minutes.

FYI, I've used Malwarebytes Free for years on Windows.

What manual instructions... LOL In the current version, you scan or you don't scan, there are no options to choose.

Since this probably came with my migration from a Mac with El Capitan, who knows where it came from. For all I know, it could have come with something I downloaded from the App Store or some other site many years ago. I don't know if we can ever learn when it was installed.

OK... Let's back up.

I am not talking about the Yandex Browser. It has never been installed on my Mac, either this Mac or the Mac it replaced.

I have never installed any extension in Safari, since I use Safari maybe 5 times a year, just to check to see if a particular web page exhibits the same issues I'm having in Firefox.

I am talking about the Yandex Search Engine, that is an option in Safari Preferences list for a default search engine.

My default web browser is Firefox, which it has been since 2009.

I can't remove what doesn't exist, and never has existed. I would like to remove the Yandex Search Engine listed in Safari Preferences.

:-)

Yep. :-) I don't use Safari, and only one cookie was installed.... Apple.com! LOL

I set up an old iMac system with El Capitan I still have, Yandex is there too. This system's data was migrated from El Capitan, so I'll bet that's where it came from.

And that tells me there's a file somewhere that contains the Search Engine info, and probably editable with the knowledge and right software.