Found a solution to the chrome://newtab yahoo/bing/etc search … – Reddit

The biggest giveaway obviously is that it would send them to yahoo with each search. As I’ve handled these types of issues, I am well acquainted with all of the standard fixes: Removing all extensions, removing all search engines and confirming home links, new tab links etc are all correct, resetting chrome to factory defaults, running virus …

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1862p05/found_a_solution_to_the_chromenewtab_yahoobingetc/