Help required

I need so help with my laptop. Yahoo seem to have infested my laptop and every time I want to open an attachment it fails to open and instead a home page for Yahoo comes up. mainly on the google browser. How the **** do I get this uninvited thing off my laptop. It is really effecting what I do.
Help as always appreciated


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Could be a lot or a little wrong, hard to diagnose without seeing it. I'd take it to a pc shop if it was me.

 

um sounds to me like you need to just play around with the browser settings.

PS to get to them, just click on the three horizontal lines, click on the icon - top right of browser.

 

or you could try a 'rollback'.

 

ahhh, sounds like someone's ben downloading naughty things........I had a similar problem with a thing called Delta Homes replacing google whenever i did a search, simply google yahoo ads remove and there are various options available. To be honest though, the best thing is to buy a decent security package for your computer, something like McAfee or similar, may cost a bit each year but it's worth it. If that doesn't work like Patty said if you can do a roll back - reset the computer to a period in time when all was OK then try that

 

AVG does this. I think they own Yahoo or vice versa so it constantly spams you with requests to change your homepage and default search engine to ****ing Yahoo. It's really intrusive, they deliberately hide the option to opt out of this **** and make it really easy to not notice you're even agreeing to it.

 

A very good free anti virus alternative is Avast. Aside from advice given look at getting Malware bytes to run a full check. Also if you have downloaded something recently sometimes Yahoo and it's invasive intentional control freakery is bundled in with the software. So I'd try returning computer to earlier time and then just to be safe rather than sorry next time getting Avast and Malware bytes on your machine.

 

Is Avast not intrusive though? I've always found free anti-viruses to be irritating like that. Some people say you shouldn't need any apart from the in built Windows Defender. I keep meaning to look into this because I'd love to get rid of AVG.

 

this is what I happening..so how do i get rid?

 

You may just need to change your homepage/default search engine back to whatever you wanted it to be. It's simple to do but awkward to explain over a forum. I'd recommend Googling '[browser name] change homepage'.

 

Me too. I also use their VPN tool to get round geo-blocking. I think that's great too.

 

Delete off any recently downloaded apps on the control panel and reset your browsers to use google, if it's a recent thing you can tell on the control panel when things are downloaded so anything after the date when you think you had problems delete it off/uninstall. When installing stuff always go for custom install and click on no when it asks you if you want **** like Mcafee security or whatever

 

Try this.