Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

[Shlomo Solomon]

I wanted to re-install the bad extension so I could answer your
question.

But I discovered that it no longer exists - So I guess I wasn't the
first person to notify the Chrome store about the abuse.


On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:27:58 +0300
Shay Gover <govershay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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