Our quick how-to guide will show you how easy it is to change your device’s homepage to the Google search engine. It can be annoying and frustrating if you have to open Google manually every time you open your device. Some laptops automatically go to Bing or even Yahoo. You might consider Google to be your primary search engine, but your laptop or your smartphone might select a different search engine as your go-to. Treating it like malware and removing it are the best things to do. But generally, if your browser Home page keeps getting reset to something else, then it’s usually a sign of malicious software on your machine. If you’re not sure what to use, I recommend that you read “ What security software do you recommend?” These tools should prevent this from happening in the future. Make sure that you’re running security software to prevent this kind of malicious behavior in the first place.Ultimately, running a program like Malwarebytes will usually clear this issue up pretty quickly. Hopefully you’ll not have to go to the extreme end to remove the malware. The steps here range from simple to fairly extreme. Check out my “ How do I remove malware?” article. Regardless of why, if malware is the cause, then you’ll want to do two things. There are variants on this these involving everything from getting truly malicious software onto your machine to (more or less) benignly redirecting you to other sites from which the malware authors make money. The most common reason is simply that there is malware on your machine that maliciously resets your homepage to something else every time you change it. It might have been protecting you … from you! Reason #2: Malware did it.
If you set the homepage after you installed your security software, it may have prevented you from changing the homepage.Ĭheck the settings in your anti-malware package relating to browser home page protection. Many anti- spyware tools have built-in protection to prevent malicious software from changing the homepage. Reason #1: Your security software changed it.īelieve it or not, your security software could be the culprit. There are a couple of reasons why this might be happening. (Though How do I change my browser home page back to what I want? has instructions for a couple.)įor our purposes here, let’s say that you already set the homepage, but something is changing it. If you haven’t set this up, I can’t really give you the steps as they’re different for each browser program. Now, I’m going to assume that you’ve actually set this page to what you want it to be. The Home page is nothing more than the web page that automatically opens when you launch your web browser or hit the Home button in that browser.
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