VULNERABILITY DETAILS
The malicious software "chromesearch.today." is typically installed on a user's instance of chrome on the Windows operating system, it infects the DOM elements of the victim's computer in a way that stops them from being able to manage their chrome search engine settings. It is particularly malicious as it does not install anything to program files or the like so it is not detected by antivirus scanning or web browser security, making it quite hard to get rid of. the scope of what the virus does is unknown as my intention was to clear it as soon as possible however the immediate observable activity was is as follows.
- Locks the search engine settings so they are unchangeable 
- Modifies 'new tab' behaviour
- Locks default search engine to the malicious one 
- Searches for something, passing through a 3rd party site before being redirected to a yahoo search.

I have since cured the bug by both manipulating DOM elements and also doing a .pol to .sav registry file name conversion and running a command to deleted the effected registry, this has removed all traces of it however for an untrained individual this would be almost impossible to both search for a fix for, or even google for.


VERSION
Chrome Version: [61.0.3163.100] + [Official Build, 64-bit]
Operating System: [Windows 10 build 15063.674]