Solved Chrome search hijack - cant remove

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Hi chrome search redirect , have tried just about everything to fix

logs etc attached.

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Hello,

Is it happening only in Chrome?

 

[blunted]

hi ty for looking at this

yes only chrome. not happening in chrome canary , not happening in edge (installed but i dont use it).

 

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sorry hadnt tried firefox which is also installed I just forgot about it. just tested it doesnt happen in this browser either.

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Can you check Chrome extensions and remove anything unknown or suspicious?

 

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ok I removed ninja kit, a video downloader plugin and block image. all these were disabled.

leaving

uBlock Origin
Reddit enchancement suite
avast online security

restarted

still redirecting.

I removed them all and restarted chrome. still redirecting.

faster searcher eluxer.com and a few others (hard to see they flash up so fast) are still showing in status at bottom left of window whenever i search , eventually redirects to yahoo7.

 

[blunted]

hi - whatever it is seems to be adding random dns servers.

ipconfig /displaydns output attached.

 

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I tried ipconfig /flushdns
they vanish , then are added to nameserver list again soon afterwards
no keys in registry under local machine/ system/tcpip/parameters/

 

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have checked hosts file again , no entries

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Scan with Farbar Recovery Scan Tool

Please re-run Farbar Recovery Scan Tool to give me a fresh look at your system.

• Right-click on
  
  icon and select
  
  Run as Administrator to start the tool.
  (XP users click run after receipt of Windows Security Warning - Open File).
• Make sure that Addition.txt option is checked.
  
  
  
  
  
• Press Scan button and wait.
• The tool will produce two logfiles on your desktop: FRST.txt and Addition.txt.

Please attach report into your next reply.

 

[blunted]

thank you - attached

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Can you try to clean the Chrome cache?

 

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still redirecting

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Then try to reinstall Chrome.

 

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hi tried that and reinstall , same issue. ty.

 

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Did you login to your Google account after reinstall?

 

[blunted]

Hi,

Sorry for late reply , have only just had time to look at this again.
yes it came back after signing in to google account. I uninstalled , cleared sync data, reinstalled and it is now gone

tyvm for your help!

 

[ausrock60]

Hello,
I'm having exactly the same problem.
Driving me crazy {{cleanerserp.net}}
I thought I might have to delete Chrome and re-install.
Thanks for the above.