How to get Bing Search Engine off Safari when Google is already my default setting.

[Hygge]

I have no idea why, but for the past few days, every time I search anything, the google results come up, I click on the one I want, and instead of going to that result, the Bing Search page appears instead with it's own list of results.

I've checked that Google is still my default setting, and it is, so I don't know why Bing is suddenly appearing as well or how to get rid of it.

We've recently transferred the internet account and phone line over to Virgin Media, and I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

But it's really annoying me. Even typing something on YouTube sends me back to Bing.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[Miscible]

Reviving this one as I have the same problem with an Apple MacBook. My default search engine is still shown as Google, and in fact when I do search something it goes to Google initially but then changes to Bing within half a second. I've tried deleting Bing from my programmes, also something called trovi or trovit which appears just before it changes to Bing, but it just comes back again. It happened just after I installed an update.

I have a nasty feeling this is a virus. Any ideas of how to deal with it, or recommendations for a good clean-up/antivirus programme for Macs?

[widowerbutok]

Try clicking the Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Bing redirect or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Found this by googling 'Remove Bing redirect virus"

Hope this helps

[Miscible]

Thanks. I don't have a Go button (MacBook Air) but I found Applications. It doesn't seem to give the option of removing to trash, but it does allow you to remove programmes; however, I've tried that a few times and the bing programmes just seem to come back. I suspect therefore that it's a virus - does that sound likely? If so, does anyone have any recommendations for virus removers for Macs?

[widowerbutok]

Oh dear, sorry to hear that. I had another look on google and found this in an Apple forum. Scroll to the bottom and see if their recommendation works.
Apple
Best of luck

[nutgrabber]

I had this recently too due to picking up the malware virus, Trovi. I couldn't search via google so had to change the default to Bing or DuckDuckGo.

I solved it by buying an app (Adware Zap Browser Cleaner) to clean up my system. It cost me £4.99 and scanned my files, identified 20 rogue files which I deleted. Changed my default search engine back to Google and bingo, problem solved.

It sounds like you need to do something similar. The problem arose with me because i received a message that Flashplayer needs to be updated to work with 64 bit sources but you should ignore messages and MacCleaner requests too.

Fully delete maccleaner files and empty trash too.

Good luck

[Miscible]

widowerbutok's recommendation worked, very many thanks. It was really annoying me getting stuck with searching things via Bing - you'd think they would want to do something to stop it as it hardly does their image any good. Thanks for the app recommendation, I think I may go for that anyway in case anything else has slipped through.