It appears to have been removed from my system. What was happening was the browser was being redirected and taking me to a website called proceedingwinners.com instead of the URL I'd typed or selected by link. This was happening at random, not every time. I assumed it was a virus and ran a full malwarebytes scan but it didn't find it. I googled proceedingwinners.com and found various sites all outlining more-or-less the same procedure for getting rid of it, but these (manual methods) didn't work either. I check the settings in chrome (the browser I use) but couldnt find anything suspicious. So I posted here. On further searching I found unhackme, which got rid of it.