Comments on: Okay, here’s the latest game my computer is playing with me https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-665144 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:26:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-665144 Ann:

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Worked like a charm, and took about 2 seconds. Actually, less.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-665040 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:34:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-665040 Freeware basically installs spy/malware these days. Not really for malicious purposes but just because of the profit from internet data collection.

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-665020 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 22:56:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-665020 Gringo: the same thing happened to me, and I fixed it the same way. I had a bad feeling about that freeware and should have paid better attention to it.

]]> By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-665016 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 22:37:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-665016 A while back I installed some freeware. It changed my home page, and also listed some bizarre search engine in my search engine listing [far right in Firefox.]. I ended up having to do three things: uninstall recently installed software, reinstall my home page preference, and in the far right of the browser tool bar, click to get Mange Search Engines, and remove the bizarre search engine.

I use Ixquick most of the time for a search engine, but revert to Google for a complicated search, as Google is a better at complicated searches. I just did a Google search, and didn’t see the Yahoo problem. I never use Yahoo as a search engine.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-664951 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:57:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-664951 The computers here seem to be completely hijacked by some alien virus or government conspiracy.

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-664929 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:16:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-664929 My computer did this a while ago. I assumed it was because Firefox was responding the the German outrage about the NSA and its co-conspirators. My problem is even worse because my search engine is now the German yahoo, which means I get all sorts of results for German sites. With Google, when I typed English words, I got English results. To get Getman results, I typed German words. Made sense to me.
I’ll be home in one month. Then I’ll have one of my husband’s computer-savy TAs clean up this mess. I’m sick of all these geeks and nerds making my life more complicated because they have a cool idea.

]]> By: Ann https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-664907 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:27:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-664907 I had the same problem last week, only mine defaulted to Bing for the search engine.

I went to the Firefox help section and I think what I did was install this recommended add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/

Hope that works for you.

]]> By: Matthew M https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-664904 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:25:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-664904 Most of the forum comments indicate you will have to uninstall something. Try browsing the task manager to see if any of the running or startup processes seem fishy. Reinstalling Firefox probably won’t work if another program is meddling with it from the outside.

]]> By: JEB https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-664901 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:18:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-664901 I can think of two possible things. Yahoo is insidious when it comes to trying to sneak in there, apparently hoping you’ll love them so much that you’ll forgive the underhandedness and stay with them.

Did you install anything lately? An adobe or Shockwave update perhaps? And not notice a little check box telling the updater to also install Yahoo search bar? If so, you’ve gotta find it and uninstall.

The other possibility is that your preferred search engine preference got changed. Same kind of thing, some sneaky update that defaulted the choice and hoped you’d miss it.

That’s why I refuse to do anything Yahoo. If they can’t do business the honest way, then I don’t do any business with them at all.

]]> By: nyght https://thenewneo.com/2013/10/01/okay-heres-the-latest-game-my-computer-is-playing-with-me/#comment-664899 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:13:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=32106#comment-664899 Here’s a little step by step way to do it. You’re getting into and editing the config, though, so make sure that you’re editing what you mean to be editing.

http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Browser%27s-Default-Search-Engine#Firefox

Cheers!

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