[Libertarian4Bush]

the light in my refrigerator seems to be broken. is anyone else's not working?

[alnick]

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.

[antiRepublicrat]

You've likely somehow installed the new Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox. In order to do this, you had to click "yes" to a couple of buttons, plus add Yahoo to the list of acceptable sites to get extensions from. Then when it runs it asks you if you want to change your default search and home pages. You can remove it through the extensions manager, Tools : Extensions. This tool is beta software, so it could have messed something up.

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.

[JoJo Gunn]

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.

[Dashing Dasher]

ReBoOt.