Advice Request Odd symbols in Chrome search

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Malakke

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Hello guys. I was testing the effectiveness of DNS servers (Opendns, Norton Connectsafe, etc...) against porn sites, and when i searched "xvideos" in Chrome browser....:

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Whatever DNS server i use, it shows these odd symbols when I do a search for a term related to porn

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Internet Explorer or Edge not show this behaviour...
 

Rishi

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Try using different search engines and see if the issue persists, e.g. Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo or Startpage. It's an accented or modifier unicode implemented several times above/below a normal character, you can find those in character map in Windows OS.
 

Malakke

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Try using different search engines and see if the issue persists, e.g. Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo or Startpage. It's an accented or modifier unicode implemented several times above/below a normal character, you can find those in character map in Windows OS.

With other engines the issue is gone... Paranormal activity cleared ;)
 

XavierGaming

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Although it has been fixed, the first thing I would've recommended would be changing DNS it is very strange that it's happening never seen anything like it before in my life o_O
It's just a key character. Back in my trolling days, I used to use those characters to annoy random people off the internet (because that's the roll of a troll xD) If you want to create or use these keys, try googling "Zalgo Generator".
 

jamescv7

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Its a key character, there are instances that some AV can detect malicious page if you search some keywords without visiting a site however low chance of rate to get infected.

So that likely a bug that contribute from your installed addons or DNS.
 
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