?problem with Safari or with Google

I have a problem that's been happening for a few days now. Whenever I click on Safari which usually takes me to my iGoogle homepage, the page that loads is <www.net.cn> which is in Chinese.
Steps taken so far: Cleared cache / reset Safari / downloaded and ran MacScan which found a few tracking sites but nothing else strange / I also downloaded and reinstalled Safari over the top of the previous one. If I restart the computer, it will sometimes go straight to the regular Google page but then after that will go back to the chinese site.
I have bookmarked my regular igoogle page and that loads OK when I click it.
I downloaded Chrome as a backup browser to see what would happen but that has been coming up as page not found.
Questions
Anyone else had this problem?
? prob with Safari or with Google?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Laurie
Suggestions as to what could be going on?

alesta --
You said
I have bookmarked my regular igoogle page and that loads OK when I click it.
OK, click that site, go there, and then while on that page,
go to your Safari preferences to "General" , and click
"Home Page: Set to Current Page."
The correct URL should then be noted.
Let us know if that works, OK?

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