This year I don’t have an office, so I’m mostly using a laptop and wireless internet, which is a PITA. Have had a variety of problems (“Excel has stopped working and needs to close. Windows is looking for a solution to this problem blah blah…”)
One possibly terminal problem is that my favored browser Chrome is translating (I assume) some of the texts of some websites into Chinese. Started with a US-based online STEM course and has now “spread” to my yahoo email, rendering it unusable.
I don’t read Chinese, I’m not about to learn, and since this is presumably some kind of machine translation its probably wrong anyway.
I have the browser language set to English, of course. Clearing the browser history doesn’t seem to make any difference.
Running Windows 10. Microsoft Edge is on it but doesn’t seem to work properly and sometimes won’t start, though I suppose I could try another browser.
Had a search on the internyet but didn’t find anything useful.
Suggestions? Re-install everything would be an obvious one I suppose but that'll be difficult and disruptive.
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Originally Posted By: Ducked
Suggestions? Re-install everything would be an obvious one I suppose
Run something like ccleaner first and a GOOD antivirus program first to see what it finds.
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Any chance you are connecting through a proxy that has a Chinese IP? Our MPLS connection hosed up a year ago and we defaulted through Germany and Google.de was our default until the connection was restored. Otherwise, nuke it, you will be better off in the long run.
Malwarebytes trial, install, remove all the crud, then CCleaner, then you should be good.
Originally Posted By: JC1
Run something like ccleaner first and a GOOD antivirus program first to see what it finds.
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Malwarebytes is an Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware/Ad-Ware etc. It really is a good deep search tool for junk. It eliminates a lot of hard to remove stuff.
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Any chance you are connecting through a proxy that has a Chinese IP? Our MPLS connection hosed up a year ago and we defaulted through Germany and Google.de was our default until the connection was restored. Otherwise, nuke it, you will be better off in the long run.
Originally Posted By: StevieC
Malwarebytes is an Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware/Ad-Ware etc. It really is a good deep search tool for junk. It eliminates a lot of hard to remove stuff.
2.4GHz Wifi is quite slow, I'm so glad I upgraded to 5GHz because I actually get the full download speeds that my internet provider provides me. 
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Originally Posted By: StevieC
Malwarebytes is an Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware/Ad-Ware etc. It really is a good deep search tool for junk. It eliminates a lot of hard to remove stuff.
Yeah I have a lifetime version as well. So glad I bought it before they changed to a paid subscription model.
2.4ghz wifi isnt slow, you can get hundreds of Mbit/second on it.
now if its congested, has a ton of people on it, old hardware thats sketchy etc.. that all is possible.
2.4 has much better range than 5ghz. I do put my streaming boxes on 5ghz just to alleviate congestion on the 2.4ghz AP's
Don't click on porn, that helps alot.
It may be over-enthusiastic about detecting your location? Check in Settings: Search for Languages and make sure that the languages you want to use are the only ones installed. In Settings I am pretty sure you can also opt out of the page translation.
Originally Posted By: 2015_PSD
Any chance you are connecting through a proxy that has a Chinese IP? Our MPLS connection hosed up a year ago and we defaulted through Germany and Google.de was our default until the connection was restored. Otherwise, nuke it, you will be better off in the long run.
Originally Posted By: StevieC
2.4GHz Wifi is quite slow, I'm so glad I upgraded to 5GHz because I actually get the full download speeds that my internet provider provides me.
By the time you factor in noise and re-tries because pretty much everyone has a 2.4ghz band or some other device interfering with it you aren't achieving the 300 speeds in actuality. And yes I did a wireless site survey for open channels and noise etc. 5GHZ is far superior in speed and reliability by almost 6x if your setup is right.
Also consumer grade routers are terrible, even the expensive ones. Professional Dual Band access points is the way to go, plugged into a switch that handles Jumbo Frame. The gigabit file transfer across my network is leaps/bounds faster than it was on the same band with a traditional router of the higher end variety.
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Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
It may be over-enthusiastic about detecting your location? Check in Settings: Search for Languages and make sure that the languages you want to use are the only ones installed. In Settings I am pretty sure you can also opt out of the page translation.
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Malware Bytes re-run found the PUPs again, so I must have failed to complete the process.
Folder: 3
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy, C:\Users\ducked\AppData\Roaming\OpenCandy\7DFD890D8B0346BFBCD580D059F7FC09, No Action By User, [524], [173202],1.0.3003
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy, C:\Users\ducked\AppData\Roaming\OpenCandy\F5F755118C4A4860B058ABD94365073F, No Action By User, [524], [173202],1.0.3003
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy, C:\USERS\DUCKED\APPDATA\ROAMING\OPENCANDY, No Action By User, [524], [173202],1.0.3003
File: 1
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy, C:\Users\ducked\AppData\Roaming\OpenCandy\F5F755118C4A4860B058ABD94365073F\Opera_NI_stable.exe, No Action By User, [524], [173202],1.0.3003
Nothing else found those, but they aren't considered malicious, and are probably unlikely to be associated with these problems.
Seem to be mixed views on't net about CC Cleaner, and it has apparently been compromised and delivered malware in the past.
If I run it I'll tell it to leave the registry alone.
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