Safari switches to Yahoo search

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Safari switches to Yahoo search

My default search is Google but it switches to Yahoo.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 1, 2021 11:42 AM

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Eric Root

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Jul 2, 2021 12:16 PM in response to Ken Tannenbaum

See if anything here helps. Do not download any other programs that are listed in the articles.

. Delete Yahoo Redirect from Mac OS

Eliminate Yahoo Redirect from Safari.

https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-yahoo-redirect-virus.html.

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions, uninstall any you don't recognize, and then turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

Safari/Preferences/General - see what the Home Page is set to. If something you don't recognize, see if you can replace it with something you want.

Safari menu/Clear History.

System Preferences and remove any Profiles you see.

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Answer 2

Jul 2, 2021 10:38 AM in response to Ken Tannenbaum

Are there NO answers to this puzzle? MalwareBytes "seems " to be what wold work but it has not (in my case). I'm running Mohave and Safari with Google as the search engine. I have ZERO extensions on Safari, have rebooted, all the rest, have run CLeanMyMac AND MalwareBytes and the problem persists. THanks.

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