The "Yahoo search" inconvenience, my 2 cents worth !!

[imageman100]

Windows 10 Pro  /  McAfee Total Protection, latest version

It's taken considerable bits of time over months to discover that the pesky "Yahoo Search" engine with no obvious uninstaller I believe is a result of McAfee Total Protection sneaking it in with updates.

I dislike "Yahoo search" intensely because it appears out of nowhere like malware without an uninstaller.  I don't want it on my server or workstations. The dislike for Yahoo has now clouded my sense of Intel McAfee's professionalism.

If anyone cares, do a search on the problem and you'll find thousands of complaints, and solutions that don't work. - Ticked Off, IM

[catdaddy]

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[catdaddy · Accepted solution]

I suggest that you go to your Control Panel and select McAfee Web Advisor and remove/RESTART.. Then re-install and if asked to select (Yahoo Safe Search) to decline. You have the choice to elect Google/or other search engines as your default.

WebAdvisor Download  I hope this helps...

CD

[imageman100]

catdaddy - Thank you for your speedy reply! We (my IT guy actually) figured this out this morning. I marked your answer as "Correct" - Best, IM

[catdaddy]

Glad that all is okay now

All the Best,

CD

[exbrit]

Anyone experiencing this in the future - Webadvisor Secure Search employs Yahoo because that is the only search engine that has signed up, thus far.

If you see it's on and you didn't want it, it means a popup occurred asking if you wanted to use it and you must have inadvertently clicked OK.

It's easy to turn off.

Simply click just to the right side of ther "M" in your upper browser toolbar on the right-hand side, click Options.  You'll see something like this:

Make sure that centre selection is checked.  Then in your browser options select which search engine you'd prefer to use.

[elah]

I had already done the above, and also found another spot in McAfee to ensure that Chrome opens up to google.com which greatly reduced unwanted presence of Yahoo.

Now a search only occasionally pops up in the completely useless Yahoo Search.  But I want to not ever be diverted to Yahoo Search.

So I joined this community in hopes of finding a definitive fix (short of uninstalling/reinstalling McAfee, an idea that makes me nervous).  I find there are years of complaints about this problem, and no one from McAfee has troubled themselves to provide one unambiguous solution that actually works. 

The earliest complaint about this single problem seems to date to 2009.  It's nearly 2018.  Still no clear solution.  Anyone ever read this forum that actually works at McAfee?  Hello?  Hello? 

[elah]

Thanks...this sounds like it might work.  But the very idea that the only way to correct this nonsense is to reinstall while watching for the trick question...really?  The problem has apparently existed for years, with no response from McAfee. Customers expect and deserve a better answer.

[exbrit]

Make sure that choice is set in ALL browsers.

[exbrit]

I should have added, if WebAdvisor goes through a major update, the settings sometimes go back to default.

That's just something you have to keep a lookout for.