MacBook keeps opening random tabs on Safari

Matt_Mcg wrote:

My MacBook Pro (M1 Chip) keeps opening random tabs on Safari, and when I search for things it is coming up with bing, instead of Google, I don't know why this is happening and its quite annoying, Has this happened to anyone before? Is there something I can do to fix this?

If you suspect you have installed adware/malware/ search hijacking

>System Preferences>Profiles click into it and then remove all the suspicious things from the list. (This Preference pane will not be present if no profiles found.)

also Verify you are not using SOCKS proxy:

>System Preferences>Networks>Advanced>Proxy uncheck the box

Adware/malware launch daemons can set SOCKS proxies without user participation.

(SOCKS is an Internet protocol that exchanges network packets between a client and server through a proxy server.)

Adware Removal Guide—Manual removal of : http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-identification/

or

Try running this trusted utility https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/