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For a few days now, I experience the following symptoms:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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    who is your ISP? There are some ISPs in some countries which will rewrite responses and inject javascript iframes etc.
    – Yorik
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 15:34
  • check your browser add-ons most likely ad-ware. delete any that you did not install yourself or remove them one-by-one to find the culprit.
    – NULL.Dude
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 15:36
  • Are there any other devices in the same LAN? Do they have the same problem?
    – Sam
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 16:04
  • Thank you for the beneficial question, sam. The answer is: there are more devices. I did not observe the situatuation happening there
    – shealtiel
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 21:46
  • @Yorik , no change of the ISP. This would also be very problematic if this mainstream Israeli isp would have been doing such a something
    – shealtiel
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 21:49

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After experiencing the same problem and going through a process of disabling chrome extensions, I found it to be the Chrome Apps Launcher extension to be the culprit. This also made a load of ads appear at the top of the google images search page, with the image thumbnails only appearing a full page scroll down the results. Disabled Apps Launcher extension and all is back to normal. This problem started on a brand new laptop so a little surprised to be getting these problems. Malwarebytes and Chrome Clean-up Computer functions found nothing

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