I had the same issue and it took me a lot of time to narrow everything down to MAEP. That is because one of the first things I did was turn it off and Chrome still would not load the pages. I also turned BitDefender Total Security off and that did not help. So after trying several other things that I found on the Chrome Forum which did not work, I finally uninstalled MAEP and Chrome still would not run. I had to Restart the PC after uninstalling and now everything is fine. Until Malwarebytes comes up with a solution--I have to leave the Program off my PC. The ironic thing is this all started when I ran CCleaner and had to force shutdown Chrome. I don't know if it was a coincidence or what. This whole thing sure wasted a lot of my time