http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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Bledy
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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Vitesse wrote:Type about:config into your address bar, promise to beware of the dragons and then in the search box on the page that opens type keyword.URL

Double click on that line and a box should pop up: type http://www.google.com/search?q= into the box and click OK. Close the about:config tab and restart Firefox. You should now have Google back.

Thanks, it works.
Before I tried everything except this but with no result.
Issildur
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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Great. Thanks a lot.
mielona
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I've done like u said. but it still coming back when i restart firefox ;/ i don't have idea how kick that bug from my PC ;/ please help
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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You need to remove or disable whatever extension is changing it before resetting keyword.URL will help.
Tip of the day: If it has "toolbar" in the name, it's crap.
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Mielona
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i don't have idea ;// i've change home page , and all that stuff in mozzilla config , after i close firefox, in right down corner shows some info about changes , when i start FF again evrythings come back;/ i've scan my PC on Malwarebytes Anti-Malware , and found some bug, delete them. but it still doesn't work .
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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Go into the Addons Manager, Ctrl+Shift+A and see if there's anything there you didn't install or don't recognize.
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mielona
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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Done ! i've use Revo Uninstaller Pro to unistall Browser Protector , change all things in firefox and it's work ! :D
ascourge21
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Post by ascourge21 »

I reset a field (something like extensions.crossrider. .... .js)in about:config which was directing to real shady webpages (babylon.com and so on). That solved the problem with me along with changing 'keyword.url' to google.
theabyssaldark
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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Vitesse wrote:Type about:config into your address bar, promise to beware of the dragons and then in the search box on the page that opens type keyword.URL

Double click on that line and a box should pop up: type http://www.google.com/search?q= into the box and click OK. Close the about:config tab and restart Firefox. You should now have Google back.



Thank you very much for this! It worked like a charm and my Google search is back in action. :) Best of luck to everyone else encountering issues still, I hope you can get it sorted out using any of the methods mentioned here. Just be careful!
321DAN
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mielona wrote:Done ! i've use Revo Uninstaller Pro to unistall Browser Protector , change all things in firefox and it's work ! :D

THANX MAN!!,did the same and i finally got rid of this rubbish!!
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JSmile
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All of the above didn't help for me.

I ran avast! AV, it didn't catch anything.

I had to run Microsoft Security Essentials, found a Trojan, but it wasn't the real trouble.

I had to run MalwareBytes, which caught a Hijack malware that affected both my IE and Firefox.
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Re: http://search.searchcompletion.com/ ?

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GlobetrotterSA wrote:I have the same problem. I type a query in Google search, then the suggested search queries appear in the dropdown list but when I hover the mouse over the options, a "google search" and "web search" link also appears beneath it. When I click on it, I'm redirected to search.searchcompletion.com

I ran CCleaner and deleted all temp files etc, ran Spybot-SD, ran Malwarebytes and it all came up clean. Yet the browser search hijack problem remains.

Vitesse,
I checked the keyword.URL string and it was not changed, it still said google, therefore fine. I only get the problem with the suggested search queries list in google search that display very dubious links below it that definitely is not part of standard google search. It's therefore still hijacked by searchcompletion.com

321DAN wrote:
mielona wrote:Done ! i've use Revo Uninstaller Pro to unistall Browser Protector , change all things in firefox and it's work ! :D

THANX MAN!!,did the same and i finally got rid of this rubbish!!
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