How To Remove Ask.com As Default Web Search Engine

Step 1

Last week ask.com some how got installed on my computer It has taken over all my searches and engines, no matter how many time I reset it to Google
This is worse than some viruses I have seen. After days of searching the web for answer I finally found out how to remove ask.com
I am ask.com free !!

Step 2

Go to this link first
http://media.ask.com/media/toolbar/tools/AskSearchUtility.exe
and save the file , worked for me

Step 3

Try this also if the link does not work
Internet Explorer6

1. Go to Control Panel in Windows itself
2. Click on Internet Properties
3. Click on General
4. Click on Search settings
5. Set new default and delete ask.com

Step 4

Firefox

1. Open a new tab or window.
2. Type "about:config" and hit enter, this brings up the all powerful settings of Firefox.
3. Agree to the warning that you could mess things up
4. Find keyword.url, you probably should not change anything else
5. Double click and change keyword.url string to something else like http://www.google.com/search?q=
6. Note that you cannot just put in the web site domain, you must put in the parameters before your search query. So find your favorite search engine, do a search and grab all the text up to your actual search results. So that a search for "test" in Google returns this, http://www.google.com/search?q=test, but all you need to input into the keyword.url field is http://www.google.com/search?q=