Yahoo takes over

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by ukrkoz, Nov 18, 2012.

  1. ukrkoz

    ukrkoz Private First Class

    I updated Comodo firewall yesterday and ever since, if I type something in the URL search bar, instead of going via Google, it will go straight via Yahoo.
    I have problem with Yahoo for years and am avoiding it by all means.
    I did Google redirect virus cleanup, just in case, I have all search engines, besides Google, disabled or deleted via Mozilla options and IE tools.
    Anything else I need to do? Now, if I use right hand search engine bar in Firefox, it all goes through Google, but I sometimes forget and punch "bank of america" into the main url search bar. Then it goes through Yahoo.
    It may sound like "no big deal, dummy, just use Google" but I have almost burnt myself about 6 mths ago, when Google search/bookmark saved brought me to a phishing site.
    I caught it on time, called BOA to report, and they told me to use url search bar from now on, bypassing Google search in the main screen.
     
  2. ukrkoz

    ukrkoz Private First Class

    Definitely Comodo's doing
    look at the url:
    Code:
    [url]http://us.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ytff-comodo&p=bank+of[/url]
    has both Yahoo and Comodo in it. Guess, I'll shoot them email.
     
  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

  4. ukrkoz

    ukrkoz Private First Class

    Well, like I mentioned in my original post, I did redirection clean up, along with some other things.
    I, also, posted same question on Comodo forum. They kindly told me that Comodo is now making small comodians in same bed with Yahoo (or is it comohoodians now?), to "cover for free firewall expense", hence redirections.
     
  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    But you did not finish them which is the reason why I stated what I did.

    However sounds like you are not having real malware problems then.
     

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