Hey, this might have been answered in another thread, but in all my searches I have failed to find an applicable solution.
The issue: when I search for something in the search bar on google chrome I am redirected to bing. I am currently unsure of the cause of this redirection, and any attempts so far to find the cause has failed.
Some details on how it works. The program which causes this seems very tricky. Firstly, it only redirects the first few attempts. I feel like it stops redirecting me at once I start searching for how to remove bing. However, it could just be that the program making this happen has a limited number of redirects hour/session. As can be deduced from the former, the redirection does not happen all the time, but usually at the beginning of a new session after I have been absent for a while (that means even if I open a new window, Google will be the default. Some time seems to laps before it starts redirecting again). I have been unable to identify exactly what causes it, the only consistent patterns I have been able to find is that it stops redirecting after a few searches in chrome, usually on how to remove bing redirect.
As for my attempts: I have already gone to settings> search engines> made sure the search engine is google in default and there is no trace of Bing nor any other search engine. the search engine is also by Google.com, so it is the legit one. I have also run several malware searches with my virus protection program TotalAV which failed to find suspicious programs. I have also tried to disable extensions, but due to the automatic halting of bing redirects, and the fact that it does not come back on before some random time has lapsed, I am unable to see whether removing the extensions actually help. I have tried searching individually for links between the extensions and bing redirect and found nothing.
This problem started on my school laptop, I do not download anything shady as far as I know. I personally feel like this redirection started after I downloaded adope acrobat, however, I downloaded it from their official website and they have statements saying there should be no redirect programs contained.
This issue has become extremely annoying, and the bing searches seem to come at the worst times followed by disappearing act so that I cannot make any attempts at discovering which programs cause the problem. It can even go several days between, and as such, it is not feasible to start deleting one program at a time (especially as I don't have anything other than regular programs I regularly use) only to wait a few days and see whether bing redirect comes back.
I would appreciate all help I can get: and if anyone else has experienced the same issue, how you fixed it.
Best regards,
Oliver
The issue: when I search for something in the search bar on google chrome I am redirected to bing. I am currently unsure of the cause of this redirection, and any attempts so far to find the cause has failed.
Some details on how it works. The program which causes this seems very tricky. Firstly, it only redirects the first few attempts. I feel like it stops redirecting me at once I start searching for how to remove bing. However, it could just be that the program making this happen has a limited number of redirects hour/session. As can be deduced from the former, the redirection does not happen all the time, but usually at the beginning of a new session after I have been absent for a while (that means even if I open a new window, Google will be the default. Some time seems to laps before it starts redirecting again). I have been unable to identify exactly what causes it, the only consistent patterns I have been able to find is that it stops redirecting after a few searches in chrome, usually on how to remove bing redirect.
As for my attempts: I have already gone to settings> search engines> made sure the search engine is google in default and there is no trace of Bing nor any other search engine. the search engine is also by Google.com, so it is the legit one. I have also run several malware searches with my virus protection program TotalAV which failed to find suspicious programs. I have also tried to disable extensions, but due to the automatic halting of bing redirects, and the fact that it does not come back on before some random time has lapsed, I am unable to see whether removing the extensions actually help. I have tried searching individually for links between the extensions and bing redirect and found nothing.
This problem started on my school laptop, I do not download anything shady as far as I know. I personally feel like this redirection started after I downloaded adope acrobat, however, I downloaded it from their official website and they have statements saying there should be no redirect programs contained.
This issue has become extremely annoying, and the bing searches seem to come at the worst times followed by disappearing act so that I cannot make any attempts at discovering which programs cause the problem. It can even go several days between, and as such, it is not feasible to start deleting one program at a time (especially as I don't have anything other than regular programs I regularly use) only to wait a few days and see whether bing redirect comes back.
I would appreciate all help I can get: and if anyone else has experienced the same issue, how you fixed it.
Best regards,
Oliver
