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arbortender

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Opening Chrome browser to home page (search at www.google.com) = URL:mal?
« on: January 14, 2014, 10:14:54 PM »
The avast popup's more details page yields this: URL:mal    http://62.116.143.22/app/bookmark/bookmarklet/bbrsCh...
Never seen that at google search on my own homepage...what gives?  I ran Sam Spade on that ip address and it's fake. 
What is happening there and what do I need to do to stop it from happening when I open my browser?  I'm going to change my home page to something else & change it back, and see what happens.

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Re: Opening Chrome browser to home page (search at www.google.com) = URL:mal?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2014, 10:42:36 PM »
It isn't fake here it's not good http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/92e2c769fb020c34f608cab17a32ad56-1389735463

I would strongly urge you to change it and keep it changed.

edit: And here http://quttera.com/detailed_report/62.116.143.22
« Last Edit: January 14, 2014, 10:45:18 PM by Para-Noid »
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Re: Opening Chrome browser to home page (search at www.google.com) = URL:mal?
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2014, 11:20:05 PM »
Hmm. Thank you for your time Para-noid and for those two links to store for the future.  I changed my home page to something else, but I'm still concerned. I do not yet grok exactly why that is happening.  Avast system tray icon hover says everything is good, but does that pop-up mean that something is infected or hijacked in the google search server, or in my google chrome browser, or something else?  Do I need to stop using google search? Is it unsafe to visit mail.google.com? Should I be uninstalling & reinstalling chrome, or dump it and move on to another browser....?
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Re: Opening Chrome browser to home page (search at www.google.com) = URL:mal?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2014, 04:58:38 AM »
Is google.com not a safe homepage? This is news to me. Why would avast find that other ip address when my browser is was pointed at homepage www.google.com? 
« Last Edit: January 15, 2014, 05:00:53 AM by arbortender »
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Re: Opening Chrome browser to home page (search at www.google.com) = URL:mal?
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2014, 05:02:00 AM »
I dont know what it was linking to as my DNS blocked it as "Web Spam" but that doesnt sound like a regular google page as my home screen is also pointed at google and DNS doesnt block that one.
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Re: Opening Chrome browser to home page (search at www.google.com) = URL:mal?
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2014, 10:11:23 AM »
Quote from: arbortender on January 15, 2014, 04:58:38 AM
Is google.com not a safe homepage? This is news to me. Why would avast find that other ip address when my browser is was pointed at homepage www.google.com?

It would suggest that your homepage bookmark has been altered ........
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