Firefox loading wrong page when searching from default home page

Hi,
When I try a search from the default home page (about:home) in Firefox, instead of bringing up google search results I get sent to the following page
http://search.tuxendo.com
Has anyone come across this before?

This reply by cor-el was a partial solution to the problem. But there was a further problem. Ask.com had a .exe program installed in my computer along with a program I had installed (Webroot anti-virus and Spy Sweeper), and this .exe program would keep restoring ask.com as the default search engine after I removed it. I had to use the "remove program" function of the Control Panel to remove the .exe program (called Webroot Ask.exe or something close to that) to finish the job.
So to dispose of the problem, follow the advice above from cor-el, and then go to the Control Panel, track down some form of ask.exe, and remove it.

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