Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

[Shlomo Solomon]

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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