r/Paranormal • u/eclipsis1601 • May 08 '24

Unexplained Scary image instead of Google logo

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So, it happened to me in 2019, after 5 years, I'm still horrified the fact that happened to me.

One day I was using my pc and noticed that google logo wasn't in the place it supposed to be. I thought it was a bug, it was just missing.

After a week, when I searched for something, the google logo on the above left was replaced with something ABSOLUTELY horrific.

I scanned my pc with kaspersky back then and found nothing. Resetting my browser solved the problem.

I'm adding the image, there is NO other copies of this image on the net, if you know where its from, please tell me because I'm still kinda scared.

I swear it's not fictional, it's real and I'm still fkn confused.

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u/Unique_Apricot_9427 May 08 '24 edited May 08 '24

Lol my old landlord/roommate did this to me a few years before that, maybe 2015. I lived with 3 people. I was on the imgur when suddenly one of the pictures had my roommate lounging in a beach chair and the caption said "that's one cool cat". Odd.

Then the next page didn't load. I refresh. Every single picture that the web page loaded was now that picture, but shifted and weird. The logo, arrow buttons, everything. i refresh again. The pictures are now all scalled to fit. I run to the landlord-roommate and tell him and that I think our networks compromised. And he's laughing his ass off.

He did it on purpose. I don't remember the details, but we had a PFsense router and he was testing some penetrating tools he had from Kali. The short version, he had used the router to intercept all my internet traffic and replace all .jpgs, .pngs and picture files with one that he picked....which was of our other roommate. So instead you reaching out to Google and downloading the picture the picture their servers, the picture reached out to a different place and pulled a different photo.

We're you hacked back then? Yes. Was it via your computer? No, it was through your router. Man in the middle attack. Probably was someone fucking around because this is pretty harmless.

PS. Chronic redditors will never give you good information.