Mod request - update a thread

Hello, I know this isn't the appropriate way to do things, but I've spent way too many hours to fix this firefox hijack, and hope that I can help other users. The link to http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=177061 is the top result when searching for "firefox slirsredirect.search.aol.com", and I'm guessing some users would have discovered the hijack enough to end up at that thread.

Since I'm unable to reply to that thread myself to add the info I provided, I'm requesting that a mod (or someone with permissions) add the following info to that thread, so that other users get the info they need.

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These instructions only apply to Firefox, and not internet explorer:
After uninstalling all AOL/AIM programs, and extensions (from the add-ons/extensions screen), if you're still redirected from the home page (aka, from the address bar type "about:home", and do a search from that box), it's because AIM modified the C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>.default\chromeappsstore.sqlite database to include the following: emoh.:moz-safe-about|search-engine|{"name":"AOL Search","searchUrl":"http://slirsredirect.search.aol.com/redirector/sredir?sredir=843&q=_searchTerms_&s_it=aimright-ff&s_qt=sb&tb_uuid=2012120952816355&tb_oid=09-12-2012&tb_mrud=09-12-2012"}|0|

What this means, is that the browser thinks that the default safe search engine is AIM instead of google. To fix it, you need to replace chromeappsstore.sqlite with a non-hijacked one, such as this one which I uploaded to my Dropbox https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15537140/chromeappsstore.sqlite -- but since you're afraid of hijacking and have no reason to trust mine, what you can do is go to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\ and rename profiles.ini and restart Firefox. Now a new profiles.ini will be created, and a new profile in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<new_profile>.default\ which contains a default chromeappsstore.sqlite.

Make a copy of this new chromeappsstore.sqlite, then delete the new profiles.ini, and un-rename the old profiles.ini, paste the new chromeappsstore.sqlite into the old profile folder (overwriting the old corrupt one), and the next time you start firefox and search from about:home, you should be back to using Google.