【Others】Solving the issue of Chrome homepage being hijacked by hao123 and unable to modify

May 29, 2017#Others154

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This article discusses how to solve the issue of Chrome homepage being hijacked by hao123 and unable to be modified. The author shares their frustration with hao123 and criticizes Baidu for acquiring such a company. They mention that uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome did not solve the issue and that dll hijacking is difficult to fix without reinstalling the system. The author then provides two methods that can potentially solve the problem. The first method involves renaming the Chrome.exe file, while the second method involves modifying the shortcut properties to set the desired homepage address.

hao123 is really disgusting, by the way, I want to complain about Baidu acquiring such a rogue company!

At first, I installed Chrome in the Tencent Software Center to save trouble, but found that my homepage was hijacked. I uninstalled it, deleted the cache, cleaned the registry, and then downloaded and installed it from the official website, but it was all in vain.

Later, I found out online that this is a type of DLL hijacking, which is difficult to fix unless you reinstall the system.

Damn it, when I was studying abroad, I got used to using Chrome. Many bookmarks are tied to my account, and I don't want to switch browsers or tolerate hao123's success.

I spent a lot of effort and found two methods that are not really solutions.

The first method is:

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application

Rename Chrome.exe to Chrome_.exe

The second method is:

Or open the properties of the desktop shortcut - Target - add a space at the end and then write the homepage address you want

Source: http://jingyan.baidu.com/article/8ebacdf016392249f65cd52d.html