Posted on 04/07/2005 5:20:26 AM PDT by Timeout
I've been using Firefox, trouble-free, for about 8 months. Suddenly today I can't open it. I've run my anti virus programs.
Last night a Yahoo tool somehow hijacked my search engine. When I would search on Google, the results came up with this Yahoo tool. I can't open FF to get the name, but it's icon is "CC" enclosed in a circle. Might this have something to do with the problems I'm now encountering?
Anyone else having problems this morning?
BTTT
I'm still working on it. After rebooting, Firefox did come up. But that Yahoo search engine is still there. It's "Creative Commons" = "CC".
I'll reinstall Firefox and get rid of all references to the Creative Commons cookie. Thanks for the help. I'll be back if it doesn't work.
No.....firefox is ok today...How's your firewall???
"Sometimes, reinstalling is the fastest fix."
I agree especially since, in this case, the user can't open up Firefox at all. But, I'd certainly do as others suggested, which is to run spyware and browser highjack software. Computers are such fun until something does not work correctly!
Check your spelling. It should read Internet Exploiter.
Nope I'm using Firefox right now, no problems.
"Internet Exploiter"
LOL. I (humbly) stand corrected.
Find: browser.search.selectedEngine
Right click on it.
Select: "modify"
Type in: Google
Click: Ok
Close and re-open FF.
That's what I did too...I have had very little problems with viruses, worms and such, because I know security counts....husband doesn't have the same reflexes though...I'm more techie than he.
I thought this was going to be about a re-release or remake of the Clint Eastwood movie.
Darn.
"Check your spelling. It should read Internet Exploiter."
Incorrect. I have it on good authority that it's known as "Internet Exploder" in the halls at the MSFT campus in Redmond.
Another browser is called "Netscrape."
I cannot post what the FF browser is called, for fear of being thrown off FR.
the light in my refrigerator seems to be broken. is anyone else's not working?
I broke the internet. lol
If you're going to run Hijack This as many are suggesting, you're going to need to have your Hijack This log analyzed.
After you run Hijack This, you'll get a log in notepad. Copy that log and paste it into the box as the following site:
http://www.hijackthis.de/index.php?+langselect=english
Click submit and follow the directions you get.
Good luck.
They may call it that inside Microsoft, but on the outside it feels more like "Internet Exploiter."
Lots of Microsoft haters, but I like their antispyware program. I have put adaware and spybot on friends machines and found out later they weren't keeping them up-to-date.
There's no point of having a spyware killer if you don't keep it up-to-date.
AVG seems to work on the one machine where I have it installed.
ZoneAlarm is just all-around great.
Extricating an extension without Firefox running is possible if you know what you're doing since everything's an editable text file. Mail me if you want to try it.
"Creative Commons" is a flexible set of relatively open licenses for copyrighted works, and a pretty good idea (more here). I believe Yahoo recently started a Creative Commons search feature, and that could have been in the toolbar.
There have been cases where Firefox didn't open yet it was running in the background, even multiple times, which is a drag on the system. Do Control-Alt-Delete and see if it's showing and close it/them.
BTT
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