Off Topic Yahoo!

[Kempton]

Anyone know how to get rid of the bastard? I didn't invite it, it just decided to be my new browser or toolbar thingy and it's ****. Ive been into settings and all that to uninstall but there's nothing there going by the name of 'Yahfuckinghoo' to uninstall.

Help, I need somebody.
Help, anybody.
Help, I need somebody...

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Turn it off and turn it back on again

 

[Chesh1recat]

What device/operating statements are you using ? If windows :
Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program. In the uninstall programs window: look for “Search Provided by Yahoo”, and other recently installed suspicious applications, select these entries and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".11 Mar 2017
How to get rid of Search.yahoo.com Redirect - Virus removal guide - ...
Pretty sure you can choose your browser in android , though it will obviously need installing,
And iOS gives a choice of apple ,bing ,google and yahoo search engines , at least it does on this iPad.

 

[Kempton]

What device/operating statements are you using ? If windows :
Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program. In the uninstall programs window: look for “Search Provided by Yahoo”, and other recently installed suspicious applications, select these entries and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".11 Mar 2017
How to get rid of Search.yahoo.com Redirect - Virus removal guide - ...
Pretty sure you can choose your browser in android , though it will obviously need installing,
And iOS gives a choice of apple ,bing ,google and yahoo search engines , at least it does on this iPad.

Iv'e done all that mate, it don't work.

 

[Chesh1recat]

Oh , sorry . How about just installing another browser and not using yahoo . I know it's not really the solution you want , but should do the trick .

 

[PLT]

Anyone know how to get rid of the bastard? I didn't invite it, it just decided to be my new browser or toolbar thingy and it's ****. Ive been into settings and all that to uninstall but there's nothing there going by the name of 'Yahfuckinghoo' to uninstall.

Help, I need somebody.
Help, anybody.
Help, I need somebody...

Yahoo isn't a browser so any advice relating to browsers is irrelevant.

I guess it's a search provider and/or homepage you've got. It often forces it's way in with an AVG update. Even if you've declined it before there's a new default ticked box every time it updates, which is about once every 5 minutes or so.

You can change your homepage and remove the default search thing in your browser settings. The homepage bit should be fairly easy to find and the search provider is usually under something like 'addons', 'extensions' or 'plugins'.

 

[Arnold_Lane_HCFC]

Really disappointed by this post.

I thought the owners of our club had departed.

Alas, no.

ALLAMS OUT

 

[GLP]

Turn it off and turn it back on again

An old company I used to work for, the IT help desk genuinely used to use this as step 1, step 2 was remove the battery!!

 

[Chesh1recat]

I frequently turn router off and back on when the wifi plays up . It works !

 

[DMD]

Have you tried changing the operator? That usually works for me.

 

[BrisbaneTiger]

An old company I used to work for, the IT help desk genuinely used to use this as step 1, step 2 was remove the battery!!

I think that is most IT departments....

Ours goes through that, then if that doesn't sort it, they then escalate it to the next level of incompetent idiot.... They will then retry that same scenario, then when they can't fix it they then decide its not them, you need, its the Network team, or if its the network team you are on with, it is then the windows team.

Then for some strange reason they never get back to you.......

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

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I had a right job trying to get rid of it, and finally this tutorial worked for me.

Most of it is him going through various ways that did not work, just to show you not to waste time do them. Go to 5 minutes, and do the register deletion.

I assume you are using Google Chrome, if so delete it first, then do this deletion of anything relating to Yahoo in the register, unless is says mail from the register, and that should do it.

I stopped using chrome now, and use Firefox.

 

[Mr Hatem]

Have you tried changing the operator? That usually works for me.

I think kempton should consult his computer administrator.

 

[look_back_in_amber]

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I had a right job trying to get rid of it, and finally this tutorial worked for me.

Most of it is him going through various ways that did not work, just to show you not to waste time do them. Go to 5 minutes, and do the register deletion.

I assume you are using Google Chrome, if so delete it first, then do this deletion of anything relating to Yahoo in the register, unless is says mail from the register, and that should do it.

I stopped using chrome now, and use Firefox.

Great post John, like yourself I use Firefox so I don't run into any of these issues. Google Chrome used to be my favourite browser until I realised that it slows down your PC massively as it runs that many processes in the background. I never use Google Chrome at all now.

 

[The Omega Man]

There was a Yahoo redirect virus at one time. If you watch football streams... you may need to do a virus check scan.

 

[over18and legal]

Some good advice on here lads....cheers.
Hope you get sorted Kemps

 

[ImperialTiger]

Call support Kemps

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[Plum]

Anyone know how to get rid of the bastard? I didn't invite it, it just decided to be my new browser or toolbar thingy and it's ****. Ive been into settings and all that to uninstall but there's nothing there going by the name of 'Yahfuckinghoo' to uninstall.

Help, I need somebody.
Help, anybody.
Help, I need somebody...

I recently installed the free version of Avast anti-virus on a W10 laptop. The installation process identified all sorts of potentially unwanted/threatening bits and pieces and gave me the option of removing them. Yahoo toolbar was one of them and it now seems to have gone. Worth a try and costs nowt.

 

[tigercity]

I recently installed the free version of Avast anti-virus on a W10 laptop. The installation process identified all sorts of potentially unwanted/threatening bits and pieces and gave me the option of removing them. Yahoo toolbar was one of them and it now seems to have gone. Worth a try and costs nowt.

One of our clients, France's largest credit ratings company used Avast in their IT department. I asked them, since they had such enormous resources, why they would use a free software? They considered it the best!