my search engine has been hijacked.

[mopinko]

i had been using google. out of nowhere, it became bing. the search setting in safari was still set to google.
then it became yahoo. is there a worse search engine out there? i cant believe there is.
tried setting it to duckduckgo, but no.

is there another setting beside the safari preference, or do i have some malware somewhere?

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Malwarebytes for Mac is free ...

... IIRC it will scan on demand, but not continuously in background. Probably you have downloaded a toolbar without knowing it; MWB is good at finding such.

https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/

For real-time protection I use Avast, which still supports 10.6 and is likewise free.

https://www.avast.com/en-us/free-mac-security

Unfortunately, there are some files which Avast cannont scan !

[mopinko]

2. yeah!!

thank you.