browsers hijacked by bing

[aprildawne]

on my son's computer he has firefox and internet explorer as browsers. click on either of them and bing pops up as the browser. bing has got to go. my son's computer is a dell desktop with windows 7. i have searched for bing in his system and cannot find it. thank you for your help.

 

[tashi]

Hello aprildawne,

Bing is a search engine in the browser, I hope these links will help in resolving the issue.

Firefox
Search engines
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar

Start page
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How to set the home page

Internet Explorer
Search engines
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-or-choose-a-search-provider-in-Internet-Explorer

Start page
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-your-Internet-Explorer-home-pagehttp://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-your-Internet-Explorer-home-page

Best regards.

 

[lewisje]

Sadly, many computers come with Bing pre-selected as the default search engine; I recommend "Google SSL (https)" from near the bottom of section 5 of these results, because it's one of the few Google SSL search-plugins that allows IE to provide search suggestions: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+ssl