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Product image redirects to Russian website???

GRFK DSGN UnlimitedGRFK DSGN Unlimited Posts: 1,079
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Anybody have idea as to what's going on with some of the product pages? I'll visit a product page of interest, click on one of the promo images and then Chrome displays it's translation tool bar asking if I want to translate the page from Russian to English. Or I've also had a new tab pop up for some random Russian website. I've done a virus scan and it comes up clean. I'm on a Mac OS 10.6.4 using Protection Anti-Virus with latest definitions. I've contacted Google Chrome support and they're clueless as to what's causing this. Is there anyone else having this issue???

David

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    Sounds like malware. Have you completely cleared out all your cache and cookies. I'd remove the toolbar which could also be causing it

  • GRFK DSGN UnlimitedGRFK DSGN Unlimited Posts: 1,079
    edited December 1969

    Cleared the cache & cookies and it still persists. Any idea what type of malware it might be? I tried googling it and couldnt find anything relevant. All I found had to do with htaccess which has nothing to do with my side of things.

    David

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    I would say you have been infected by a Russian Virus, run some good AV and remove.

  • GRFK DSGN UnlimitedGRFK DSGN Unlimited Posts: 1,079
    edited December 1969

    I've run Protection Anti-Virus, which is of for Mac. I have the latest updates for it. What other program do you suggest I run?

    David

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited April 2014

    This seems to be the Mac equivalent of MalwareBytes, which is what we tend to recommend that PC users run to find stuff like this

    http://www.antimalwaremac.com/ Seems there is a free version.

    And this is another highly recommended one, which comes with a free trial http://www.malwarebytesmac.org/

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    Hm, first of all, use another browser like Safari to see, then I would recommend checking what plugins you have to Crome.

    Looks like your Anti Virus is a good one, at least if updated.

    CAn be that chrome think you are running Russian, a corrupt Plist-file or something.

  • GRFK DSGN UnlimitedGRFK DSGN Unlimited Posts: 1,079
    edited December 1969

    Where might I find the plist file so that I can verify what it says?

    And thanks for the links, Chohole. I'll check those out and see if that helps.

    David

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    In ~/Library/Preferences (where ~means your home directory)

    Probably named com.google.chrome.plist

    move it to desktop and start chrome and see if it helps

    (I don't use chrome at all as it has some very odd quirks now and then)

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