Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

try disabling all your extension,
some extensions developers will sell there extensions to some 3rd party
 which will then embed some nasty stuff inside of them.

worst case, you can try and reset your chrome profile.

--
Rabin

On 26 July 2016 at 17:52, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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