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<blockquote data-quote="Mackiwi" data-source="post: 1114494" data-attributes="member: 119380">HelloFor around the last two months when I do a Google internet search on my laptop the displayed results are replaced within seconds with worse results. It doesn&#039;t happen on Google on my android phone or on Edge on my laptop (trying an alternative browser although Google would be my first preference).I have also noticed a concomitant prioritisation of Reddit and Quora results. And in case this is related, some newspaper articles with comments enabled are coincedentally no longer loading correctly (article is hypertexty for the first several pages and comments do not load at all).Please note, I failed to complete the ESET Online Scanner step as the download returned a &#039;virus scan failed&#039; message. At no stage did any of the scans detect viruses/malware, including quick and malware scans using the Emsisoft Emergency Kit as recommended at the end of the above article. The last recommended step was this forum, hence this thread.For information, I have the free version of Malwarebytes running alongside Windows Defender and I use NordVPN and NordPass and their associated extensions in Google Chrome. The only other extension is an ad blocker. All extensions have been deleted and reinstalled one by one as recommended elsewhere.Please find attached the FRST.txt and Addition.txt reports.Thank you in anticipation, HW</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mackiwi, post: 1114494, member: 119380"] Hello For around the last two months when I do a Google internet search on my laptop the displayed results are replaced within seconds with worse results. It doesn't happen on Google on my android phone or on Edge on my laptop (trying an alternative browser although Google would be my first preference). I have also noticed a concomitant prioritisation of Reddit and Quora results. And in case this is related, some newspaper articles with comments enabled are coincedentally no longer loading correctly (article is hypertexty for the first several pages and comments do not load at all). Please note, I failed to complete the ESET Online Scanner step as the download returned a 'virus scan failed' message. At no stage did any of the scans detect viruses/malware, including quick and malware scans using the Emsisoft Emergency Kit as recommended at the end of the above article. The last recommended step was this forum, hence this thread. For information, I have the free version of Malwarebytes running alongside Windows Defender and I use NordVPN and NordPass and their associated extensions in Google Chrome. The only other extension is an ad blocker. All extensions have been deleted and reinstalled one by one as recommended elsewhere. Please find attached the FRST.txt and Addition.txt reports. Thank you in anticipation, HW [/QUOTE]

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