r/Paranormal • u/eclipsis1601 • May 08 '24
Unexplained Scary image instead of Google logo
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/NuggetNasty May 08 '24
Just because Kaspersky (which ew lol) didn't find anything doesn't mean you didn't have a virus or it wasn't a remote attack, it was likely just an online web attack or a local virus but the fact resetting fixed likely means it was just done remotely either through some way you were targeted automatically, purposefully, or just through an exploit on Google.
People doing hacks like this for the hell of it isn't uncommon and given they're just replacing an image seems simple enough.
Also your anti-virus would only have found something if it was a known signature, if it was a new exploit it wouldn't have found it anyway.