how to remove yoog search engine?

[bursuc17]

glad i could help with mozilla but i can't help you with ie7,as far as i'm concerned ie7(6,5,4etc)does not exist,making mozilla your default browser would be a smart thing to do ,and if you want something more like IE try google chrome, i tried it but i¡m gonna stick to mozilla and opera for now.

[yophilly528]

None of the previous solutions worked for me. But while digging around in:

My Computer/C:/Documents and Settings/*admin*/Application Data /Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/********.default (made of random letters)

I found this folder: searchplugins. Inside was a Yoog.xml file. I deleted the folder and restarted firefox. No more yoog. Ty that.

[bursuc17]

if youtake a good look at the first posts you'll see that we also found that folder/file and removed it but with no results,so'i'm guessing that you'll have the yoog search engine back again after you reboot the pc or update the browser,i hope i'm wrong.

[yophilly528]

No its gone, but i did delete some stuff in previous posts, maybe a combination did it.

[jagp007]

Here's an option that worked for me. I don’t have for complicated solutions.
First download the Google toolbar for Firefox & install it (if you don’t already have it).
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/...a&tbbrand=GZAZ
Once installed, Open your Firefox browser and on the toolbar.
“Click on tools.” Then “Click on options.”
In the Main tab look for Add-ons and “Click on Manage add-ons"
Look for the “Extensions” tab and scroll to the “Google toolbar for Firefox” and “Click on options”
“On the choose a toolbar layout” check the “Replace Firefox search box”
Kiss Yoog search goodbye!!!!

[bursuc17]

yes but the ideea is to remove it from your system not to hide it.

[ColoS]

I found a way to stop Yoog from reappearing after being removed from the search engine list. Go to Control Panel/Folder Options/View scroll down the list until you see "Use simple file sharing" and disable it, hit Apply and Ok.Then go to X:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx.default to the mentioned in the other posts searchplugins folder and delete yoog.hml file. Go back and right click the searchplugins folder, select Sharing and Security. Select the Security tab and on the bottom of the box named Permissions for Administrators check the deny box in front of "Write" , repeat the same for all Groups or user names after selecting them in the top box, apply the settings and hit ok. When you start Firefox Yoog search is gone :) The bad side of this is that if you want to get a new search engine you'll have to uncheck the deny on "Write" because with it on nobody on the computer can create new files in the searchplugins folder and then enable it again to stop Yoog from appearing (because actually the files that create Yoog.hml are still there, but with this option on they don't have access to create it in this folder). I'm using Windows Xp SP3 so this process will probably be different in Vista and other operating systems, but I think that the principle is the same.

[jem83]

Mr Steve-
I am NOT particularly tech savvy and some of the approaches in this thread for getting rid of the damn Yoog were totally over my head... also the files they were telling me look for were nowhere to be found. I had another problem, too, which was a whole lot of "sponsored ads" appearing on search engines, like google and wikipedia, and taking up way more of the page than they are supposed to. I thought maybe those things and Yoog were related but wasn't sure. In any case I followed your very straightforward directions from start to finish (opting not to keep my old bookmarks, however) and Yoog is gone, as are all those super annoying ads. So all of the spyware purging really did the trick. I registered on this forum purely to say thanks a million from a lay person for your tech support...

[bursuc17]

i'm amazed of how many persons have this yoog search engine problem and still there is no oficial removal solution to it , i mean from like norton or some big antiviris company or something like it.thanks to all the guys that posted here and made it easier for others to remove that search engine.

[kemei]

yoog is very hard to remove but there is a method if followed properly will remove it. i had it and got it out. recently from www.gadgetech-info.blogspot.com

[bursuc17]

i had opera infected with yoog contrary to what www.gadgetech-info.blogspot.com says.

[Tasch]

Thank you so much Steve! it worked I'm happy to say that your way (13 steps) helped me to remove Yoog Malware from my system!

[pcpeart]

@Mr Steve
Thanks this worked. I tried a lot of other things and nothing got rid of it before. Interestingly enough I also had corel installed on my pc and during the search there were about 6 files with mozilla in the name that were found I deleted them along with the other mozilla files.
Thanks a milli

[dbeharry]

Mr. Steve's approach did it for me as well. I'm not sure that you need to run all of the spyware/malware programs, but it is key to remove anything connected with Mozilla. Especially liked the reminder to backup the bookmarks.

I agree that it is odd that none of the major software companies has provided a solution to this. Perhaps that is because it doesn't seem at all malicious, yet.

Thank you.