Yahoo Redirect Virus on Mac

Can't complain when it works. 🙂 Sure wouldn't hurt for the OP to try. Though it seems something is redirecting all Google searches to Yahoo.

There are no extensions on my wife's apple computer. Thank god I never bought an apple for myself. On a PC you can very easily disable unwanted search engines.

And why would you believe it's so difficult to do on a Mac? All you have to do is open Safari's preferences and choose the search engine you want your queries to open in:

hahahahahah....great!!! So many advises, information and suggestions I read on this page and at least, finally, Kurt Lang give the best, simplest and the only one advise, which helped! Thanks a lot Kurt, it was 1 second to change it! Now I have again in the URL space Google which is searching (and not anymore Yahoo)

You're welcome. Glad it helped. 🙂

Hi SeattleSoul. I took your advice but found my search engine was already set to Google yet when I opened a new tab the search engine reverted to Yahoo again. So I went a step further Safari>Preferences>General>New Tabs Open with>Here I selected Empty Page because that's what i prefer. But you can designate whatever search you want. Viola! No more Yahoo. Hope that helps!

I did the extensions part and found something called Search Genius and removed it...Now Google is not highjacked.

Thankks

Kurt LangNov 13, 2015 9:00 AM Re: How to get rid of a yahoo virus that keeps redirecting my google search engine which is set as a default to Yahoo!
in response to SeattleSoul

Not that simple at all when adware keeps changing the user settings. From the very first line in the first post:

I have google set as my default search engine…

@ achaker

Simplest thing to try first is what Linc already suggested. Open Safari's preferences and click on the Extensions tab. Disable all of them. Turn them on one at a time and test. If the problem returns, that's the extension causing the problem. Disable it again and remove it.

You're welcome. Fortunately, some adware is very easy to get rid of.

Thank you so much. This was driving me crazy!!

Adwaremedic helped me find adwares on my MacPro.

Important thing to me was to remove the recent history to completely stop this.

Obviously the google fetches the same command from the past history and repeat it on the link input area.

1. remove adware

2. reset settings

3. get rid of the brower you do not want in the setting

4. remove past history up to the point where this problem started to happen.

Chan Yang

Virginia

go to safari>preferences>extensions> delete help toolbar

go to safari>preferences>extensions> delete help toolbar

Any program that installs on my computer without my permission will *never* be used by me.

Follow this link and download the program. https://www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/mac/ I got this from Apple Support and it will remove the crap that is causing the problem. Keep it and run it when you run MacClean, or other cleanup software. It only took about two minutes and I was cleaned up and back to work. r

I had this EXACT problem! I really didn't want to download anything else because i thought it was going to hurt my mac even more, but I looked up some trustworthy virus cleaner thingeys and I found Malware Bytes Anti-Malware for Mac. The download was SUPER easy and once I downloaded it as an application the process was great. I pressed the "Scan" button and it took about 10 min. but it selected all of the problems. Then, I pressed remove in the bottom right. The removed items were in the "trash" so I had to empty it to remove the redirecting yahoo thing. SHORT STORY LONG, LONG STORY SHORT, IT REMOVE THE YAHOO VIRUS!!