Safari Home Page

Not a virus, but adware/malware is a possibility. If you would post what page it opens to, someone might be able to provide uninstall instructions. You can also try Malwarebytes, an often recommended program that eliminates adware/malware.

Download this program which was written by Thomas Reed, a long time poster. The program will search for malware/adware The program will do the work for you which makes it easy. There is no reason to leave it installed once troubleshooting is finished. The free version doesn't update itself. If you need it again, you can download it again.

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What did it change to?

Safari – Home Page see post by thomas r.

Home Page Locked - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8058186

Might be a corrupt .plist.

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

This may require a reset of some other Preferences.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

You posted in the iPhone forum but I suspect you need help with your MacBook so I requested that this be moved to the MacBook forum.

You are welcome. What has your home page changed to?

Please use the manual method. Do not download any other programs except Malwarebytes.

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You are welcome. I'm glad it is working properly again.

You are welcome. Did you try the manual, uninstall I posted?

You are welcome.