Google search being weird
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Solved by TetraSky,
Probably HOSTS redirection to a fake google site.
Run malwarebyte to find potential issues.
You can also open the HOSTS file (with notepad) in this folder
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
see if there's something wrong in there. It should only contain the following(more or less)
# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
If it has more stuff in there, like
x.x.x.x google.com
Then that's the problem.
Anti-viruses generally don't detect this type of redirection as "viruses", but malwarebyte/spybot and others like it should catch those.
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