My computer recently did an update and for some unknown reason, it has included Secure Search in my search engines now and I hate Yahoo. I can pull up my Google search on the top and it will immediately revert back to Yahoo! I have seen the suggestions for uninstalling SiteAdvisor and I have done that. However, the McAfee search icon still appears in my search engine settings, and when I go to internet options to change it, the "disable" and "remove" buttons are greyed out. I searched through my files on my C drive and found a SiteAdvisor folder in a different location, but it says it needs administrator to remove. How can I get this thing off my computer???
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I tried all the above with no luck. Even after rebooting, Secure Search kept coming up as default browser.
What DID work - I had to set one of the other browsers as "default" first. THEN the "remove" button for Secure Search became enabled and I was finally able to remove it.
Hope this helps someone else with this issue!
Try going to your Manage Add-Ons/Right click on Yahoo Secure Search,and see if you can disable. See if any other Search Providers are Listed/Available. If not try this link and select either Google or your preference of Search Providers/Make it your default Search Provider. Internet Explorer Gallery
May I ask what Version of Site Advisor were you running?
All the very Best
Catdaddy
McAfee Community Modrator
Consumer Products
At some stage you must have clicked OK to the "Make Secure Search your search engine?" pop-up. At present Yahoo is the only search engine offering this feature, but it can be turned off.
You should be able to turn it off by going to any web page in Internet Explorer, click to the right of the SiteAdvisor icon at the top of that page, select Options. Go to the Secure Search section and disable it there.
Restart the browser and it should then be possible to alter your search engine in browser options. You may have to reboot for it to take effect in all browsers.
That should work also. However you will need to enter your Password and Hint then click save/and close and reopen browser as Colleague Ex_Brit Stated.
I just tested it by turning it on and then off again and I didn't need to do anything other than restart IE between each operation. No password.
(I've never tried it before actually so this was a learning curve for me).
Hmmmmm...When I was on Version 3.7.2.182 I had to. It asked for a Password/Hint before it would take? Oh well...even better Thanks....
Maybe I found a way around that, strange. Anyway, just trying to help 😉
I tried all the above with no luck. Even after rebooting, Secure Search kept coming up as default browser.
What DID work - I had to set one of the other browsers as "default" first. THEN the "remove" button for Secure Search became enabled and I was finally able to remove it.
Hope this helps someone else with this issue!
Glad to see that all worked out for you, and all is OK If you feel assured that your issue has been resolved, could you kindly mark appropriately this thread to be correctly answered? You might want to re-install Site Advisor since you made another Browser your preference/choice. Or at least (Wot) which is similar to Site Advisor.
All the very Best
Catdaddy
McAfee Community Moderator
Consumer Products
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