Edge keeps redirecting me

Good Day Ibraheem,,

My name is Carlo, I'm an Independent Advisor and community member like you.

I am also using Windows 10 pc. Let us work together to sort this out.

Here's the steps you can try.

Reset the Edge

-Open Edge and click the 3 dots at the upper right side of your screen.

-Go to Settings

-Look for Reset Settings

-Click Restore settings to their default values.

(This will reset your startup page, new tab page, search engine, and pinned tabs. It will also disable all extensions and clear temporary data like cookies. Your favorites, history and saved passwords will not be cleared.)

Restart your pc and observe the Edge browser if you will experience the same.

I hope the information above helps. Please let me know how it goes.

Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.

With Warm Regards,

Carlo T.

I discovered a search redirector happening in my Edge Chromium browser. Long story short, it ended up being an extension that I installed from the Add-ins Store in Edge, that was a "verified" extension.

The extension was a color picker app to be used on website.

No virus scans picked it up. Hijack This did not pick it up. Nothing picked it up except just disabling add-ins until the redirecting stopped.

MICROSOFT - PLEASE VET YOUR ADD-INS BETTER!

We TRUST you to not allow virus-riddled add-ons in your store. PLEASE put a team together for a couple weeks to go through all your add-ons/extensions and clean out the ones that are compromising people's security.

What I found several extensions from the Microsoft Extension store are doing this.  With Extension default site settings granting access to all sites (Including ones from the Chrome Store)  they have free change site settings.  Using the equivalent setting for "Automatically allow access on the following sites" and adding the suggested settings to extension configuration.  This stop.  I did have one extension fighting the change,  and i simply went back to using the Google Chrome Web Store and loaded the same without issue.

Didn't work for me... I later realized that the issue in my case was that region in setting was set to China.

This sounds similar to a malware attack reported a couple of months ago. The culprits were fake extensions from the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store, and they were quickly taken down. It's a bit worrying if the same problem has arisen again.   

• What version of Edge are you running (see edge://version)?
• What extensions do you have installed (see edge://extensions)? Please give the full name and version of each one and, if you could take the trouble, its ID (the long string of letters).

If you're comfortable with Edge's dev tools (F12), you might find some clues to why this is happening there. Look for example for references to oksearch.org on the Sources tab.