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I don't know what might have made such a change, but uninstall/install would have reverted it back.
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I don't know what might have made such a change, but uninstall/install would have reverted it back.

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The system would not let me choose my solution as the best but give you the points.
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The system would not let me choose my solution as the best but give you the points.

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Thanks and I am a glad you got it solved. Holiday up here for me, so I am just reading through trying to help others.
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Thanks and I am a glad you got it solved. Holiday up here for me, so I am just reading through trying to help others.

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The first image is what things looked like after opening a Google Chrome browser new tab.<br />
The second is the way it is today.<br />
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This started after downloading YTD Video Downloader. I looked in the program list and saw two new programs. One was spigot I think and another was some background ant-malware. I removed both of those. Same as if I had downloaded Java and got the Yahoo toolbar. I'd delete the tool bar.<br />
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System restore might fix it but it would take me back to before I got the new version of the Video Downloader. That old version needed updates.<br />
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&nbsp;I did a Malwarebytes scan and the results are zero.<br />
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Any Chrome settings that are causing the difference between the two images?<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/02_w08/1146122/before.jpg" target="_blank" title="before (45 KB)"><img alt="before" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/02_w08/800_1146122/before.jpg" /></a><a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/02_w08/1146124/now.jpg" target="_blank" title="now (49 KB)"><img alt="now" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/02_w08/800_1146124/now.jpg" /></a>
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The first image is what things looked like after opening a Google Chrome browser new tab.
The second is the way it is today.

This started after downloading YTD Video Downloader. I looked in the program list and saw two new programs. One was spigot I think and another was some background ant-malware. I removed both of those. Same as if I had downloaded Java and got the Yahoo toolbar. I'd delete the tool bar.

System restore might fix it but it would take me back to before I got the new version of the Video Downloader. That old version needed updates.

 I did a Malwarebytes scan and the results are zero.

Any Chrome settings that are causing the difference between the two images?



Google Chrome new tab content.

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

Google

Chrome is a free web browser created by Google. Originally released in 2008, it has grown to become the most used desktop web browser (as of October 2016).

Chrome

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.

Web Browsers

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge; it has also come to include programs that engage in various kinds of electronic fraud. Anti-spyware is software that removes or blocks that software; some common vendors include Malwarebytes, McAfee, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and BitDefender.