Brief background: I consider myself a relatively paranoid power-user, if not an absolute pro. I regularly update my AV and keep up with all the latest updates on my Windows7 machine. But what happened today surprised me for the first time.
Today morning at around 13:30 India time, I opened www.google.com in my firefox 32 browser. But instead, my browser forwarded me here:
Tried with IE 11, the same result.
Then I did a ping www.google.com and browsed using that IP address instead. It worked and took me to Google India site. I then opened the .co.in instead of com site, that too worked! I went to a vm inside virtualbox (ubuntu/firefox) and browsed from there instead. That too worked!
At this point, I disconnected my machine from internet and ran a complete AV scan. It came up clean. Then I tried the only logical thing that occurred to me: Clearing the browser cache for google.com domain. I did it on IE and lo! it started working. On firefox, I didn't have to do that either, it started working on its own (though I don't understand why).
After that brief anomaly, I faced no issues until now. So what do you hackers make of this situation? Could it be a malware issue or something from my ISP end?
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