Microsoft Edge Redirect Issue

Jay85 · 6 Oct 2022 at 01:02

Was all working fine yesterday and today turned on my computer and Edge now keeps redirecting my searches to either Bing or Yahoo but before it does i can see it hits another redirect site before it does this.

It's going to: https://goog.istakechau.autos/ before it lands on either the bing or yahoo search engine pages instead of my set google default.

How one earth can i fix this? I've tried resetting edge but doesn't do anything.

Have yet to try a reinstall yet.

Edit: Can't even uninstall and reinstall since its part of windows now!

I have removed bing and yahoo from the list of search engines in Edge settings but still not fixed. It's like it lands on google search first then redirects to bing or yahoo afterwards.

Any help appreciated! Thanks!

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Oct 2022 at 07:05

That’s got to be spyware. Scan it with a few tools like spy or search and destroy. Do a scan with your virus scanner as well just to be on the safe side.

Jay85 · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:22

Bouton Aide said:
That’s got to be spyware. Scan it with a few tools like spy or search and destroy. Do a scan with your virus scanner as well just to be on the safe side.

Will do after work tonight, not had anything like in years.

Would a system restore fix this if it is spyware?

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:26

Jay85 said:
Will do after work tonight, not had anything like in years.

Would a system restore fix this if it is spyware?

I don’t think it will because spyware attaches itself to different things. I’ve not had a restore work with spyware. I would do some full system scans. I’m more than positive this will fix your issue. I think a reset of Microsoft edge “might” work as well but again without trying it won’t know for certain.

throwaway4372 · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:35

Clean windows install time.

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:38

throwaway4372 said:
Clean windows install time.

oh la la. It's always nice to have a clean install. I keep all important data away from my pc / laptop now and I use portable apps so I don't have to install much after a format. Takes about 10 mins to go from nothing to a clean install to a fully working pc. (excluding updates ofc).

adidan · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:41

Free version of Malwarebytes is a good one for a good check too.

But I agree with @Bouton Aide , a clean install is never a bad thing. I have barely anything that needs to be replaced on the boot drive that takes any time to reinstall, all the important useful stuff is on separate and/or external drives.

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:46

adidan said:
Free version of Malwarebytes is a good one for a good check too.

Yeh this is what I meant to say as well forgot the name of them I haven't used them in over 5 years.

adidan · 6 Oct 2022 at 08:48

Bouton Aide said:
Yeh this is what I meant to say as well forgot the name of them I haven't used them in over 5 years.

Ha, that's the only one I could remember tbh, I'd forgotten about the search & destroy one.

I do actually just do a clean install if I get anything annoying happens now seeing as it can be quicker than finding and dealing with issues.

Glanza · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:16

Check if you've got any unwanted extensions installed

Jay85 · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:29

Bouton Aide said:
I don’t think it will because spyware attaches itself to different things. I’ve not had a restore work with spyware. I would do some full system scans. I’m more than positive this will fix your issue. I think a reset of Microsoft edge “might” work as well but again without trying it won’t know for certain.

I'll try a full scan first then and see how that goes before i go diving into anti spyware programs.

Such an annoyance this is, i did a full reinstall not that long ago as well. It's probably been 10+ years since i've had a virus of any kind on my computer.

throwaway4372 said:
Clean windows install time.

I hope not but if its the only way then meh! Wasn't too bad installing Win11 last time. There's nothing on my main OS drive except the OS so should be fine, nothing to reinstall except the basic monitoring programs i use.

Glanza said:
Check if you've got any unwanted extensions installed

I checked this last night and the only recent install seems to be some webview2 runtime edge program but it seems to be part of microsoft edge as you can't uninstall it.

No extensions i can see physically either.

Jay85 · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:30

As a last minute resort last night, i switched to firefox but like you say guys i can't just leave a spyware program running in the background so i may very well end up doing a reinstall if i can't fix it.

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:32

Jay85 said:
I'll try a full scan first then and see how that goes before i go diving into anti spyware programs.

Such an annoyance this is, i did a full reinstall not that long ago as well. It's probably been 10+ years since i've had a virus of any kind on my computer.

Check this out. https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-goog-panyinadditi-autos/

Indeed it's a browser hijacker

Jay85 · 6 Oct 2022 at 09:36

Bouton Aide said:
Check this out. https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-goog-panyinadditi-autos/

Indeed it's a browser hijacker

Great guide! i'll check this out and see if anything i've missed anything.

This is exactly what i've been getting though a slightly different redirect but its the same thing in principal.

Thanks man!

Jay85 · 9 Oct 2022 at 12:27

Just an update it was spyware and Malwarebytes managed to find it and delete it. It was part of some Chrome helper crap that had somehow gotten installed into documents/users.

Stopped using Edge just incase and using firefox now. The redirect no longer happens which is a good thing!

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Oct 2022 at 09:20

Jay85 said:
Stopped using Edge just incase and using firefox now. The redirect no longer happens which is a good thing!

Just for future reference - all browsers can be problematic when it comes to this stuff. It's not just related to Edge.

Jay85 · 19 Oct 2022 at 15:08

GaryTheSnail said:
Just for future reference - all browsers can be problematic when it comes to this stuff. It's not just related to Edge.

Yeah i figured when it started doing it on Fox as well lol. Ended up doing a clean install of win11 and its done the job.

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Oct 2022 at 22:15

Jay85 said:
Yeah i figured when it started doing it on Fox as well lol. Ended up doing a clean install of win11 and its done the job.

I don't mess about when a system starts to get problems. If I can't fix it within 1 hour it gets formatted.

Jay85 · 19 Oct 2022 at 23:00

GaryTheSnail said:
I don't mess about when a system starts to get problems. If I can't fix it within 1 hour it gets formatted.

I've migrated everything off the main drive now, there were a few apps that i still used off the main drive but no more! It'll be an easy reinstall next time! I'm surprised i didn't have to reinstall drivers especially for the motherboard etc! It was already installed.