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!

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?

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.

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!

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.

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.