No idea how it happened, but even an Internet veteran like me got duped by Babylon Search. It's now my default search engine. My browsers all have a Babylon toolbar. My homepage goes to Babylon. New tab defaults to Babylon Search. Wonderful!
Most obvious solution is to remove all reference of Babylon from Add/Remove Programs. Done. (Some people have reported that it's not even visible in Add/Remove Programs.) Next is to uninstall/remove the toolbar from the browsers. Easy. Next is to manually reset the homepage. Check. Then, remove Babylon from the list of search providers. Done.
Changing the new tab default page is a bit trickier. On Chrome, go to Setting, go to On Start-up, go to Open a specific page, and remove any Babylon pages. For IE, run regedit.exe. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs. On 32-bit Windows, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs. Change the value to res://ieframe.dll/tabswelcome.htm
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