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RKP5637

(67,112 posts) Sat Dec 9, 2017, 12:50 PM Dec 2017

Is DuckDuckGo invasive Malware? It had hijacked my search engines in Linux Chrome [View all]

Last edited Sun Dec 10, 2017, 09:51 AM - Edit history (1)

and was about impossible to get rid of.

More on DuckDuckGo ... it well might not have been the specific problem, but rather how it got bundled.

https://novirus.uk/duckduckgo/

UPDATE: I manually removed it and reset my browser. I apparently picked up some third party crap along the way. Everything is OK now.

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Is DuckDuckGo invasive Malware? It had hijacked my search engines in Linux Chrome [View all] RKP5637 Dec 2017 OP

I love duckduckgoose. It work very well with Mozilla Firefox. I love Firefox a lot.... marble falls Dec 2017 #1

I used to use FF a lot, from day 1. I was looking at the recent FF release. It's pretty cool, RKP5637 Dec 2017 #2

They're very big on privacy and that is one of DDGs strong points for me... marble falls Dec 2017 #3

Yahoo is high risk IMO. Seems they are hacked a lot. RKP5637 Dec 2017 #6

I am very unhappy with Yahoo. I've had a lot of problems with it, once locked my account for .... marble falls Dec 2017 #7

link is to a page selling a product to remove DDG. an internet search turns up no particular msongs Dec 2017 #4

I removed it manually, also required a browser reset. Why are they so invasive? n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #5

Are you sure it's not a consequence of some "privacy" software you have installed... hunter Dec 2017 #8

I removed it and reset my browser and it is no longer self-installing after deleted. I'm extremely RKP5637 Dec 2017 #9

Prevent Bytefence and other hidden programs with Unchecky douglas9 Dec 2017 #10

Yes, I think this is what happened. I've now cleared the problem, so everything is back and RKP5637 Dec 2017 #11