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cecgizmo Author

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Why is my browser automatically rerouting to yahoo. It is a virus. My browser is set to apple.com

My browser is automatically rerouting to yahoo. It is set at apple.com I am afraid this is a virus. I have troubleshooted all the ideas from apple.

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 12:12 PM

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leroydouglas

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Posted on Nov 30, 2020 12:23 PM

If you suspect you have installed adware/malware:

>System Preferences>Profiles click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list. (This Preference pane will not be present if no profiles found.)

Adware Removal Guide—Manual removal of : http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/

Try running this trusted utility https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/

also Verify you are not using SOCKS proxy:

>System Preferences>Networks>Advanced>Proxy uncheck the box

Adware/malware launch daemons can set SOCKS proxies without user participation.

(SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server.)

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