For a few days now, I experience the following symptoms:
- Whenever I type a search term in the omnibox, some of the times I am being redirected to a search engine named "secure-surf.net", instead of the normal google which is set on all browser for me.
- This happens now in chrome, firefox
- I actually see, google being opened first, and then, something redirects that other secure-surf.net engine.
- Even when a normal google search takes place, the results are being modified. Some fake unrelated results are being added as the first few results. And again, I see regular true releveant results appear, and then before my eyes, few fake ones are being added to the page. This happens on an actual google search.
Steps that I took:
Full system scan with: avast antivirus (updated db), malwarebytes, zemana antimalware. No problem found by any of them.
Checked for unknown extensions on chrome. Did not find anything I don't know or trust. Neither anything new
Tried searching from an incognito window. Symptom #2 above, happens there as well.
Start → Control Panel → Network and Internet → Internet Options → Connections → LAN Settings - does not show any proxy set
Please help me to debug the situation, suggest further steps.
(I suspect maybe even a proxy being operating behind the scenes, however it's just a guess. I don't really know also how to check it)