(January 22, 2016 at 2:32 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I think Steel nailed it. Personally, I'll do a wipe rather than spend a lot of time beating my head against the wall.
I'm late to the party here, but I'll second this.
My wife had a similar problem on her laptop, she would search for something in google, click the link...and it would take her to another search engine.
I looked at it for a few days, ran traces through fiddler and procmon to see what exactly was happening.
I finally said 'fuck it', told her to backup DATA only. I begrudgingly let her keep her office documents as xls files can have macros embedded that can do some nasty things.
I blew away her system and put the OS down fresh, and reinstalled her programs and everything was fine. I spent more time troubleshooting than I did the wipe/reinstall.
