(January 19, 2016 at 4:27 am)Solus Wrote:(January 14, 2016 at 2:59 am)Irrational Wrote: Have you tried the following tool?
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
(January 14, 2016 at 6:18 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Yeah, this definitely sounds a lot like Malware to me. Try out software called Malwarebytes as the user above has recommended and get back to us. MB usually sorts issues like this out fairly easily.
I've tried both of these ideas. Twice.
No matter what I do, I cannot get Google back on my home/new tab option. I fucking hate this shit. It's such a pain in my ass.
Check your Add/Remove and uninstall anything that may be to do with Yahoo or some other advertising shit.
This is not necessarily malware by the way, to be clear. But it does sound annoying.