A quick disable of this prevents the search redirect! I've been wracking my brain on 'littleapsearch' too!Īfter your post, i realised i also had a colour picker extension installed. If you search in the edge URL bar for anything, check to make sure the URL resolves without any stops in between!!! And if you are getting a redirect, try uninstalling 3rd-party extensions you may have and see if that doesn't fix it. So, this along with the timing makes me feel that one of my extensions i nixed may have been spyware that logged my password through an auto-fill when I logged in through Edge one time.Īnyways, IDK how many people have this but I know at least a couple have asked questions on the MS Answer boards about it so it isn't just me. But, my password was 16 completely random generated characters and there's absolutely no way I was dictionary attacked or re-used a password.

Literally the next day I received a 2-FA request for my outlook acc that I did not initaite that originated from France (I live in the US) and I denied it and changed my password and nothing at all appears to have been compromised.

I then tried uninstalling some third-party edge extensions I had used for a while (some small-ish ones, I think the problematic one may have been a color-picker with not a ton of downloads) and that completely removed the brief man-in-the-middle redirect I was receiving when searching in the url bar or with bing. I thought it looked malicious although the domain was empty, and I went ahead and cleared all of my edge data and signed out, but was still getting the redirect.

I saw recently that when I was searching in edge with bing that I would be getting a redirect in-between my search being returned and when it was sent through an empty domain (in my case 'littleapsearch' ) and couldn't figure out why.

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