Just did that... will have to wait to see if the redirects happen. Will post back here in a day or so or when I see a redirect.... whichever happens first.
#46
Posted 31 March 2017 - 02:45 PM
#47
Posted 02 April 2017 - 05:41 PM
FYI... So far so good.... I think the culprit is the AdBlock extension I have on Chrome. I've been enabling/disabling the different extensions I have and IT SEEMS when AdBloc is on, I'm getting the redirects. But my testing has not been totally clean so I'm not going to swear by my conclusions just yet, LOL.
But I've had AdBlock for a while now (years) with no issues of any kind so I'm thinking maybe when I accidentally loaded the malware on my system (which I have no clue how considering the fact that I am very careful not to) it latched on to it. So even after scanning my drive, etc. and removing what's there, the extension itself was still infected. I did change some setting on AdBlock a while back (which I can't remember for the life of me what it was) so maybe that in combination of something I somehow downloaded or a site I visited triggered things?
I admit I have no clue how that could happen and it does kinda sounds far-fetched. I am in now way as technically knowledgeable as you but still, I'm not totally stupid either when it comes to these types of things.
Anything you know about AdBlock and ways it can be used for the kind of stuff I've been experiencing?
Edited by rm15, 02 April 2017 - 05:44 PM.
#48
Posted 02 April 2017 - 07:11 PM
#49
Posted 02 April 2017 - 07:44 PM
Do you happen to know anything about "New incognito window" extension?
https://chrome.googl...chrome-ntp-icon
I have it and looking at the reviews, everyone is saying it's malware. I removed it and now have all my remaining extensions enabled to see if it's really the cause of all my issues.
#50
Posted 02 April 2017 - 08:35 PM
Yes the reviews say it's malware. I don't know anything about it just figured since it was in the official google chrome downloads that it was probably OK. Guess not.
#51
Posted 02 April 2017 - 10:48 PM
Yup, I thought so too.... so much for that!
It's all good though. Now we know and that's all that matters to me. I just wanted to identify the source, remove it and be done with it. So ASSUMING that really is the cause of all my troubles, it should all be good now.
Thank you again for all your time and help.
#52
Posted 03 April 2017 - 05:12 AM
#53
Posted 03 April 2017 - 10:24 AM
Sounds good.... good news is I do not use any P2P programs and I'm set with everything else.
Again, thank you for all your help with all this!!!
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