Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

I'm using Chromium 51.0.2704.103 on Mageia 5. My homepage is set to www.google.com Today, for no reason that I can see, when I click on the home button, seemingly "random" pages open, with one thing in common. They all look similar to Google (white background, search window etc), but instead of th

Re: Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

A small correction to what I wrote. The problem happens when I click "New Tab" to the right of the open tabs - NOT when I click Home. On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:08:05 +0300 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm using Chromium 51.0.2704.103 on Mageia 5. > My homepage is set to www.google.com > > Today, for no

Re: Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

OK - I "sort of" solved this by installing an extension - Speed Dial 2 - in Chromium. But I still have no idea why it happened in the first place. On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:21:34 +0300 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > A small correction to what I wrote. The problem happens when I click > "New Tab" to the

Re: Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

What happens when you open a private session(Ctrl+Shift+N)? Shay On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > try disabling all your extension, > some extensions developers will sell there extensions to some 3rd party > which will then embed some nasty stuff inside of them. > >

Re: Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

try disabling all your extension, some extensions developers will sell there extensions to some 3rd party which will then embed some nasty stuff inside of them. worst case, you can try and reset your chrome profile. -- Rabin On 26 July 2016 at 17:52, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > OK - I "sort of" s

Re: Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

Thanks - that was indeed the problem. I disabled all extensions and then re-enabled one by one and discovered that the problem is an extension called Chrome Note. The strange thing is that I installed it many months ago and it only started to cause problems today - maybe there was a version upgrad

Re: Chromium homepage problem - OR - Have I been hacked?

I wanted to re-install the bad extension so I could answer your question. But I discovered that it no longer exists - So I guess I wasn't the first person to notify the Chrome store about the abuse. On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:27:58 +0300 Shay Gover wrote: > What happens when you open a private ses