How can i remove babylon search from firefox

Hope other users of FF see this topic and have the same successful results. Babylon Offers a full service for all its products and features valid from the Babylon Store and on the world wide web You can gain a full support and assistance on how to remove Babylon from your computer by the following ways :. Phone US Email: Support babylon. I removed Babylon and more spyware by going to spybot.

I would like to know what program brought babylon into my computer. I did not download it, it just showed up. The only thing I can think of is I had a WildBlue tech working on my system and it showed up right about that time. It is a pain in the rump. Babylon is affiliated with a number of downloads and can appear when you say yes to everything in a download program.

I spent about a month trying to get rid of Babylon, until I went to the Kimcommando. It appears that Babylon hides in your computers ram and reloads itself after try to remove it. This worked for me..

Click start.. Click RUN.. Babylon resides in 2 files there I had gotten rid of almost every thing, but it still kept coming up and I did fix it by going in and resetting my home page. I had someone with similar problem. She had gone to a site to get shoes. She then ended up with Bablylon Search engine on her Firefox. Tried changing it back to Yahoo, but, kept coming back.

Tried the About:config settings. Reset put to Google. Set Main page as Yahoo. Firefox went right back to Babylon. Got rid of some Add-ins, that she said she didn't remember. Same thing. Used them. Still coming up on a Babylon search page. Removed Babylon Search from the Firefox engines list.

Still coming up, as Home Page, but, Search engine not showing. Updated before run. Babylon Still coming back as Home Page. Got to this forum. Had the install available. Installed and ran. Within 3mins, it had found Babylon. Good by Babbaaa. I got rid of it once and for all. This is lengthy so print it out.

I found all the places in my computer that Babylon was hiding. Hit the Windows button on your keyboard and "R" at the same time. Go to "Find", and type in "babylon". This will go through your entire hierachy of files and folders on your computer.

Just deleting the "string or key" will leave the folder to "reproduce" or whatever the heck it does so it doesn't go away. Ok once thats done, go to your start button on your computer and hit "Search". This will find any files or folders with that name in it, on it, around it, over it, and under it!!!

Next, open a new browser window I know, you probably still see the babylon thing You will see a list come up. In the "Search" space, type the word Babylon in there. A list of everything associated with that word comes up. Now this is where you will modify ALL these "strings. Right click every one that has the word "babylon" and modify it to say "google".

You will still see the Babylon stuff on the left side of this screen but as long as your strings don't have the word "babylon" in it then your good to go. HPOnNewTab; search. One last thing. In your browser window to the right of your address bar, there is another search box with a tiny little arrow on the left side Although Babylon is a legitimate website but its toolbar and browser add-ons use malicious tactics and they become annoying when they frequently redirect your web search and web links to babylon.

Its categorized as browser hijacking malware. In future try to take care what you download and install, there is often some small print warning somewhere that you are installing the additional software and changing things on your computer. These sorts of things presumably earn money and will continue to be offered widely. If you find a new solution or tip; especially the names of the toolbar or whatever that needs removing, and what it was that installed Babylon; by all means post in this thread.

If you are having a problem yourself it is best if you start your own thread by asking a question. OS System Restores are not always a good method of solving problems, and I would certainly not recommend them as first choice for trivial uninstalls.

Incidentally why even bother with the uninstall if you are restoring to a point a few days before the software was downloaded? The new firefox reset feature available from the troubleshooting menu or from safe mode in some fx versions may help.

Dephillips' solution absolutely fixed the problem go to Firefox drop-down menu upper left corner, click help, open troubleshooting information, click reset Firefox and Voila! Thank you so much - I was about to lose my mind trying to get rid of this thing. Meanwhile, it sets isearch. You may feel irritated when you come to know that your browser preferences are changed and you want to uninstall it. Removing the Babylon only from the Control Panel will not work, you have to delete all other malicious programs, not installed by you, but appears in your system.

This tutorial will guide you to remove Babylon search from Mozilla by following the simple steps as explained below.