[zorse]

My search engine has changed itself from google inexplicably to something called Yanga - I did not change it myself nor did I want to. I have done some internet searches and there is nothing under Yanga that I can see that id's it as a search engine. I worry more as it says Yanga.us.com so that to me means something foriegn.

I run Mozilla, have mcaffe and a firewall set up in addition to using advast. There does seem to be some issues with my wireless access at this point as it is very intermittant right now, on for 20 minutes and down for 5. I am not worried about the wireless, but if this is something malicous that I did not catch using the above resources I listed. Has anyone encountered this and what can I do to reset things to normal?

[rangerdud105]

Bo says:

1. Enter about:config in the Location bar
2. Type keyword.url in the "Filter"
3. Right-click the keyword.url preference and choose "Reset" from the context menu.

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view...parentId=73810

[rednetsk]

I have the EXACT same issue. It even messed up my wireless connection too. When I run internet explorer, I keep getting these popups from spybot, telling me that something is trying to change my registry (something about the startup page).

So I followed the instructions from Bo (above), and it was exactly as he said except the "reset" option is not highlighted and I CANT select it. I can see it, but unlike copy name, copy value, new, and modify the "reset" is unhighlighted and it's impossible to select it. I'm convinced this is a virus that hijacked us. It started for me when I foolishly downloaded something sketchy that I shouldnt have (why do i always insist on learning the hard way?), and then immediately all this stuff started happening with the wireless connection, and yanga taking over my search engines, and i had some "anti virus" icons magically appear on my desktop. We got played.

Thanks guys in advance for the help!

Any other suggestions, since the above help didn't work?

[lunarlander]

Zorse, you need additional tools to combat spyware and adware. Spybot S&D is a good free one, I use Webroot Spysweeper. Then there's also ad-aware, which is free. I think both can detect unwanted changes to yoru browser.

[zorse]

Rednetsk,

I had 100% the same issues you had only with out IE (firefox). I tried what Bo recommended and had the same results as you did. I have not found a single antivirus/malware program yet that can pick this bug up and crush it.

Bo had another suggestion which worked, I downloaded a new version of firefox 3.0 and installed that and my wireless and search engine issues went away since I was using firefox2.0 . Maybe you can try this as well and switch over to ff and your issue will go away? I had ie as a backup browser and that is working now without the search engine being taken over and my wireless going haywire.

I run mcafee and advast and neither picked this up, I tried superantispyware also and struck out there. Check the mozilla/ff site below out for support as others have had the same issue but different solutions are working.

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view...parentId=73810

Thanks lunar, I will run your suggestions and see if that helps as well.