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ISSUE: Whenever I type "i" in lower case it changes the search to iron-start, it doesn't do it with a capital "I". Is this something built into chrome or malware? I have reinstalled Chrome, and reinstalled my OS for other reasons, but once in a while I notice that this still shows up. What is it? How can I remove it? I looked at the website and it doesn't look right. I checked all the extensions as well and don't see anything, and reset chrome to its original settings.

Image of it

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  • What version of Windows are you using? Or other OS? – MC10 Dec 17 '15 at 10:02
  • Windows 10 64bit – arealhobo Dec 17 '15 at 17:02
  • Possible duplicate of [How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC?](http://superuser.com/questions/100360/how-can-i-remove-malicious-spyware-malware-adware-viruses-trojans-or-rootkit) – DavidPostill Dec 18 '15 at 22:11
  • Not a duplicate, seems to have been a unique issue to me, it has been resolved now. – arealhobo Dec 19 '15 at 01:33
  • The site's Q&A format relies on questions being just questions and answers being solutions to them. Including an answer within the question makes the question unclear, and others can't search for the answer. Instead, please post the answer as an answer (read [Can I answer my own question?](http://superuser.com/help/self-answer)) – fixer1234 Dec 19 '15 at 06:23
  • No one is ever happy – arealhobo Dec 19 '15 at 06:27

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Solution: After further investigating, this turned out not to be malware or a browser hijack. In settings of Chrome, under Search, I clicked "Manage Search Engines". In here iron-start.com was listed as a default search engine with the keyword short cut "i". I simply removed this and it no longer pops up in the URL bar when typing "i"

Reason: A Couple years ago I installed a program called SRWare Iron, an alternative to chrome, and I believe in doing this, it insert this search engine into my chrome browser. I knew my computer was not infected due to me wiping my computer a couple times due to other reason, as well as reinstalling chrome and reset to default settings. What I found out was that the issue persisted at work and home, where I was both logged into my gmail. It was clear that the default search engines were synchronizing from my gmail account.

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