Feb

11

2010

FIX to Remove MyWebSearch in Firefox

Author: Admin Tech4.us

OK, Do you get the MyWebSearch if Firefox that just will not go away.  After removing the toolbar in IE, and Add/Remove Programs for anything related to MyWebSearch or Global Web Search, and running spybot and malwarebytes, it still came up in firefox.  Test would be to type forecastfox in the top URL, and it should take you directly to the ADDin.  But still redirected to MYWEBSEARCH.

-The FIX:  Open Firefox and
-type ABOUT:CONFIG in the top URL line
-Agree to the warning, that it might void your warranty and click on I’ll Be Careful, I promise button
-Press on CTRL-F, hold CTRL key down and press F to FIND or FILTER yoru search
-type in the Filter Box, MYWEB (capital letters do not matter)
-On my clients infected comptuer, I found FIVE references, so I Right Click on each of the items and on that menu, I clicked on RESET.
-After all five are RESET to default values, I Restarted FIREFOX (3.6) and the MyWebSearch REDIRECTS are gone.

Test again:  Type ForeCastFox in the URL top search line, straight to the addon, which I do recommend.  YEAH!  Hope this helps anyone.

Michael B.

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3 Responses to “FIX to Remove MyWebSearch in Firefox”

  1. Michael B. Says:
    February 11th, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    This works great. Thanks.

  2. Harald Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 1:38 am

    Thanks a lot!

    After hours of still trying to figure out how to get rid of the MYWEBSEARCH crap I finally found your site.

    Works like a charm!!!!

    Thanks
    Harald

  3. Tonita Beauford Says:
    June 10th, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    lol ok so this is exactly how asinine I am, midway through reading through your post I dropped my cup of coffee on my desk and shut down the firefox by mistake and I couldn’t find your article once again right up until 2 days later on to finish reading from the point i stopped at due to the fact I did not remember how I linked to your web site to begin with ahaha at any rate it was worth the wait..many thanks :)

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