How can I change my options of hijacked search defalt back to normal?

In recent days, I noticed that my search engine by default, on the Firefox homepage as well as on the search bar, has been changed to Yahoo. I changed the two back only to find that the settings reset themselves every time the browser is closed.

Since then, I have traveled dozens of sons to help in the other forums looking for a solution. Nothing works. I checked the yahoo software and AVG, I started in safe mode, I disabled plugins and Add-ons, suspect I deleted unwanted in the browser and hard disk search options. No dice.

I want to know how to change my default search to google engine.

For those who have similar problems, it seems that the culprit was a program called SearchSettings.exe that was running in the background on my computer. The program is often part of a set of search bar. In the case of my machine, however, the search bar is not installed and therefore appear in my browser does not add ons or my Add/Remove Programs menu.

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