I didn't take the steps noted in the sticky topic since this is not exactly malware, but it could be considered that way due to this reason - whenever I am close to getting rid of it, I somehow get it back on my system and in even a worse form than it was, it's not a virus, not a malware, but the most annoying software I've ever come across.
I don't remember how, but I somehow got Yandex on my computer after I bought it. I did my best at removing it, took the toolbars out, reset homepages etc. procedures, but the Yandex files somehow still remained and in Mozilla Firefox - it wasn't possible to get rid of it, even after uninstalling the toolbar, removing it from programs thru add/remove feature and even after editing the Mozilla configuration files to delete every single mention of Yandex, it all reset on the next launch.
Now, when re-installing DAEMON Tools Lite, they somehow forced me to install Yandex alongside it. Now it also auto-pinned 2 annoying icons on my toolbar, which I'll momentarily remove, but I've noticed Yandex isn't in add/remove programs, yet it's there and bugging me around.
Is Yandex hidden somewhere in system files? If so, please help me in removing it. I don't want to use this Russian search engine, it's horrible and I prefer Google over this annoying overattachive piece of garbage. I'm not going to perform any steps other than unpinning the 2 Yandex web launchers from the toolbar, so I don't screw something up and make the uninstallation process harder.
I use Google Chrome and luckily it hasn't been infected with this, not sure why, but I'm fine with it. But Yandex is all over Mozilla Firefox - home page is Yandex, the main page of Mozilla shows Yandex search at top, which isn't removed even when uninstalling the toolbar, the fact that whenever I write anything in the address bar that isn't a homepage (AKA trying to do Google search without going to Google), it goes to Yandex search engine, the same happens when I uninstall the toolbar.
Thanks in advance.
NOTE - Yandex is not technically malware, but a very annoying software that is overattachive to my computer and I cannot get rid of it and need assistance, couldn't find any proper forum section for it so I took the closest that there is.
I don't remember how, but I somehow got Yandex on my computer after I bought it. I did my best at removing it, took the toolbars out, reset homepages etc. procedures, but the Yandex files somehow still remained and in Mozilla Firefox - it wasn't possible to get rid of it, even after uninstalling the toolbar, removing it from programs thru add/remove feature and even after editing the Mozilla configuration files to delete every single mention of Yandex, it all reset on the next launch.
Now, when re-installing DAEMON Tools Lite, they somehow forced me to install Yandex alongside it. Now it also auto-pinned 2 annoying icons on my toolbar, which I'll momentarily remove, but I've noticed Yandex isn't in add/remove programs, yet it's there and bugging me around.
Is Yandex hidden somewhere in system files? If so, please help me in removing it. I don't want to use this Russian search engine, it's horrible and I prefer Google over this annoying overattachive piece of garbage. I'm not going to perform any steps other than unpinning the 2 Yandex web launchers from the toolbar, so I don't screw something up and make the uninstallation process harder.
I use Google Chrome and luckily it hasn't been infected with this, not sure why, but I'm fine with it. But Yandex is all over Mozilla Firefox - home page is Yandex, the main page of Mozilla shows Yandex search at top, which isn't removed even when uninstalling the toolbar, the fact that whenever I write anything in the address bar that isn't a homepage (AKA trying to do Google search without going to Google), it goes to Yandex search engine, the same happens when I uninstall the toolbar.
Thanks in advance.
NOTE - Yandex is not technically malware, but a very annoying software that is overattachive to my computer and I cannot get rid of it and need assistance, couldn't find any proper forum section for it so I took the closest that there is.