Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

[Shay Gover]

What happens when you open a private session(Ctrl+Shift+N)?

Shay

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:

> 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
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shlomo Solomon
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