Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

[Shlomo Solomon]

Thanks - that was indeed the problem. I disabled all extensions and
then re-enabled one by one and discovered that the problem is an
extension called Chrome Note.

The strange thing is that I installed it many months ago and it only
started to cause problems today - maybe there was a version upgrade.

In any case, I deleted it and reported the abuse on the chrome store.

Thanks again.


On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:25:14 +0300
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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Shlomo Solomon
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