Redirecting to asian google using latest Safari update

[lornemac]

Dear all

I use Safari on a 1 year old Macbook pro 17". I have recently been getting random asian pages come up whilst still showing a UK web address in the browser. (as per attached screen shot)

Anyone got an explanation for this and whether I should be worried?

Best regards

Lorne

 

[Detrius]

Idea: are your DNS settings correct?

 

[lornemac]

Dns erm...

I wouldn't know how to check this.

 

[Bob Coxner]

Try this for DNS

https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

 

[palpatine]

The text is in simplified Chinese, so it is run by some kind of mainland China entity, but the site does not seem correct to me for two reasons.

First, when I use Google in Chinese, it looks just like any other Google homepage, except with Chinese characters. The address usually looks like this:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=zh-CN

Second, assuming you are in the UK, you should not be getting any Asian pages as a default. I am in Asia at the moment, and when I go to the UK site from here, my Google page is in Japanese, because it is detecting that as my location according to my ISP address (I assume). I just click on the English page button on the bottom to get the regular UK version.

I wish I had an answer for you. I would start by clearing all of your cookies and so forth (I do this daily). Or, try going there with a different browser (I use chrome). See if that has any effect.

 

[DropKick]

What does the source code say?

something like Menu bar -> View -> View Source

take a screenshot and post it back here. It doesn't look good though.

 

[Whorehay]

Check your router settings as well. If you still have the default "admin/password" combo to get into your router settings, a malicious website could easily change the DNS settings to get something similar to what you're seeing.