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pursuant

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    YAhoo home page altered
    « on: September 14, 2012, 05:13:11 PM »
    I have the latest firefox browser. I use Yahoo as my home page. I have a couple of links to facebook and my gmail account on it. Yesterday I opened my browser to the home page and got a different format. I lost my links to Gmail, FaceBook. The page had a giant scroll of news items. Before I had a nice set on compartments with concise 2-4 lines of news broken into news, local news, weather, sports. All of that is gone. I checked it on another pc and everything came back normal, so it must be something on my pc. I had a message saying my flash player has crashed . That happened several times.. I looked in my extensions and it says XULrunner 1.9.1 is incompatible with this new version. That wouldn't cause it? Then I started thinking there may some kind of virus.
    Any other thoughts?

    Thanks

    jason2074



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    Re: YAhoo home page altered
    « Reply #1 on: September 14, 2012, 11:57:52 PM »
    Looking over the internet, XULrunner is prone to being infected by malware. You could try going to the Virus and Spyware section of Computerhope and have you clear of the infection.
    Read here and post a new topic here.

    pursuant

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      Re: YAhoo home page altered
      « Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 08:27:23 AM »
      Thanks, I was hoping Yahoo was doing something with their home page and someone might be aware of it. I'll try malware and virus section.

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      Re: YAhoo home page altered
      « Reply #3 on: September 15, 2012, 08:31:05 AM »
      They have...check the Options to return to classic view...

      NOTE: they will do everything to discourage you from doing so...took me 20 minutes
      " Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

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        Re: YAhoo home page altered
        « Reply #4 on: September 15, 2012, 08:40:31 AM »
        great thanks but I can't seem to locate the classic view option. It really must be hidden

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        Re: YAhoo home page altered
        « Reply #5 on: September 15, 2012, 08:50:17 AM »
        Upper rite corner...Options...then start digging.... ;D
        " Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

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          Re: YAhoo home page altered
          « Reply #6 on: September 15, 2012, 08:51:46 AM »
          got it. I never found the option but went here.
          http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

          Thanks again