Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

[Shlomo Solomon]

OK - I "sort of" solved this by installing an extension - Speed Dial
2 - in Chromium. 

But I still have no idea why it happened in the first place.


On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:21:34 +0300
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:

> A small correction to what I wrote. The problem happens when I click
> "New Tab" to the right of the open tabs - NOT when I click Home.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:08:05 +0300
> Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm using Chromium 51.0.2704.103 on Mageia 5.
> > My homepage is set to www.google.com
> > 
> > Today, for no reason that I can see, when I click on the home
> > button, seemingly "random" pages open, with one thing in common.
> > They all look similar to Google (white background, search window
> > etc), but instead of the Google logo, I see the word SEARCH in the
> > colors of the Google logo.
> > 
> > If I actually type www.google.com, I get to Google. The problem is
> > only when I click on the home icon.
> > 
> > I tried clearing cache, browser history etc but no change.
> > I changed my home page to www.ynet.co.il, and I still get the
> > "random" SEARCH sites.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this behaviour?
> > 
> > I'm including a few of the sites I've been reaching. Notice that
> > many (but not all) are from .ru:
> > 
> > http://miyake-inc.com/i/searchsss.html
> > http://safesearch5.ru/stm.html
> > http://mystartpage1.ru/i/start.html
> > http://mystartpage6.ru/blank.html
> > http://wzscnet.com/i/startm.html
> > http://safesearch4.ru/startss.html
> > http://safesearch3.ru/startt.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 



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