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McAfee Secure Search works alongside McAfee WebAdvisor to give you extra protection while you search and browse online. When Secure Search is on, it might change your Chrome browser's default search provider to the Secure Search search provider. For example, it might change Chrome's default search engine to the Yahoo! search engine.
It’s most commonly changing Chrome engine to Yahoo, but it might be another search engine too. Regardless, here’s how to stop it: How do I stop McAfee from changing my default search engine? 1. Disable McAfee Web advisor extension. Navigate to your browser (in this case, Chrome).
McAfee’s tendency to make Yahoo default can be frustrating, but it’s often a simple issue to resolve. By following the steps outlined in this article, you should be able to stop McAfee from...
I just noticed that if I search anything on chrome, it turns a Yahoo search and not Google search. On further checking, I found its McAfee secure search engine. But I have been using McAfee for some 2 months and everything was normal, no yahoo secure search, but now all of a sudden it changed.
The integration of Yahoo as the default search engine in Chrome is part of McAfee's effort to offer a holistic browsing experience. By partnering with Yahoo, McAfee aims to enhance users' online safety by providing them with a search engine that prioritizes security and privacy.
info on how to remove mcafee yahoo search provider and enable safe search on the default google search provider while still using mcafee
Try to find the safe search feature from McAfee and disable it. Or just straight up delete McAfee. Then change your default search back to Google.
You will need to decide whether McAfee's "safe search" adds any value. Google Search also provides that feature: https://www.google.com/safesearch. Helpful? (My first instinct is to tell...