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Please help me. How can I get rid of Bing?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Sep 19, 2022 9:53 AM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2022 6:32 AM

Ireland1950 wrote:

Please help me. How can I get rid of Bing?



In your Browser preferences— you should be able to select your preferred search engine:





Bing is an option, however if your search engine is been hijacked—

I might 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.)


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.)


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

or

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


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Sep 20, 2022 6:32 AM in response to Ireland1950

Ireland1950 wrote:

Please help me. How can I get rid of Bing?



In your Browser preferences— you should be able to select your preferred search engine:





Bing is an option, however if your search engine is been hijacked—

I might 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.)


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.)


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

or

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


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