firefox and AOL search

[plumber4578]

Some1 updating AIM (I am guessing) on my PC. now AOL is my main search engine and everytime I type a web address( minus .com) it goes to AOL search page. I unistalled the AOL toolbar and AIM and it's still there. Any1 know how to get rid of it?

 

[Trotter]

I'm on FF3 now, so I can't tell it it is the same for FF2 (how quickly we forget, eh?)

Click the drop-down on the search bar (where you type in for the search engine). Choose the default search engine you want to use. Bingo! If that doesn't work I would run some spyware apps.

Who uses AIM? Grab Trillian or Pidgin and use 'em all at the same time. A word of caution, though... Pidgin royally screws my connection. Don't know if it is my computer, my modem, or my router, but it kills my connection. Trillian doesn't.

 

[Kharn]

What do you mean by "pidgin screws your connection"? I use it an don't have a problem, do you just get random disconnects? slows the net down etc?

 

[Trotter]

Completely kills the connection, period. My ISP can't even ping me. Once I reboot everything I am back online. So I use Trillian if I IM.

 

[plumber4578]

I changed the search engine in my drop down menu. My puter still goes to AOL search page. I am really limited torunning spyware because not too much seems to work with Vista 64. I am running spyware guard and spyware blaster and everything seems clean.

 

[KSoD]

Use Osiris's guide and post a log in our analyze area.

 

[plumber4578]

Please excuse my ignorance but what is Osiris's guide?

 

[Trotter]

Here ya go:

http://www.techist.com/forums/f51/spyware-removal-guide-osiris-165828/