Google search being weird

[Hoibard]

In the past week my google search has been very weird. All other google pages like YouTube, google.com and google translate etc. are working as normal. But google search is strange for some reason.

As you can see in the pictures it looks very odd and gives me odder results. I'm also not logged in for some reason. The second picture in of a google picture search. And this is always what is displayed whatever picture you search with. Doesn't matter if you're in normal or incognito mode.

For some reason I'm also logged in to Google pictures but not normal Google search. This is the reason why Google pictures is in Swedish.

I've tried to re-install Chrome but it's still the same results. It's not like this on my other computer where I'm logged in to the same account.

I would suspect a virus but my anti-virus program says no.

[TechJ]

Have you tried simple things like maybe another browser or clearing your cache. Sounds simple but always worth ago? Do you know what changed before this all happened? No idea if this would help with this issue but you could also try flushing your dns through cmd [ ipconfig  /flushdns]

[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.

[Hoibard]

Thank you Tetra. There was nothing wrong with the file but malwerebyte found the problem so it's back to normal now