Yahoo keeps changing my search engine (Hijacked) (in Edge and Google)

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2024-12-29T00:01:15+00:00

Yahoo keeps changing my search engine (Hijacked) (in Edge and Google)

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_AW_ 70,246 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2025-01-10T12:23:45+00:00

Before sending me any more logs, see if this might fix the issue on any or all computers.

If there are multiple browser profiles, you'll need to log in to each profile in the respective browser.

  • For Edge, paste edge://settings/searchEngines into the address bar.
  • Delete any search engine that's not Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo
  • Same thing for Chrome but paste chrome://settings/searchEngines

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  1. _AW_ 70,246 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-30T02:27:35+00:00

    Open up the Settings app and go to Apps => Installed apps and uninstall PCAppstore.

    
- Download [**Fixlist.txt**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ggvfMOz0v21ljZ0ZMSFlGknHkslOB_B/view?usp=sharing "drive.google.com") **** and save it in the folder where FRST64.exe is located.
- Close any apps with unsaved work.
- Run FRST64.exe and click "Fix".
- The computer will reboot to complete the process.

Please share the resulting Fixlog.txt and let me know if the search hijack is still happening.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T01:58:59+00:00

    Was this app intentionally installed? - PC App Store NO!

    Do you know what this is - C:\Windows\HideIcon.exe ? I have no idea.......

    Please advise, I appriciate your attention very much!

    Will

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  3. _AW_ 70,246 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-30T01:29:07+00:00

    Was this app intentionally installed? - PC App Store

    Do you know what this is - C:\Windows\HideIcon.exe ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-30T00:55:29+00:00

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