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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Aug 2016
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OS: Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Unwanted tabs opening up

Reported by drchanow...@gmail.com, Jul 24 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version       : 51.0.2704.103
OS Version: OS X 10.11.6
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
  Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
     Safari 5:
  Firefox 4.x:
     IE 7/8/9:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Selecting an existing bookmark
2.Selecting a hyperlink within a page
3.

What is the expected result?


What happens instead of that?
Random tab opens. Occasionally there is a "virus" report that opens and there is no way to close other than killing the Chrome process from Activity Monitor

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possible.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36



 
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Comment 1 by b...@chromium.org, Jul 25 2016

Components: Services>Safebrowsing
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Could you please post the hyperlink that leads to this behavior?  Thank you.
http://outlook.com/  I select this link and it opens a new tab that takes
me here. (Bing rewards) This page comes up repeatedly. I will also see the
Outlook login page repeatedly.
I begin to enter in a search from Google and this page opens up . (Apple
assist center)
I had left the Chrome app idle while I did other things and now I find this
page/tab is now open. I hadn't selected anything nor was I even active
while this happened.
Now, literally while I was forwarding this message to you, this appears. .
Cc: rsesek@chromium.org
This sounds suspiciously like malware.  I know a couple people who reported similar symptoms, starting after they downloaded and installed a fake "Flash Player" binary.

+rsesek to see if there's an easy way to confirm whether or not malware might be installed.  Would it show up as a module in a crash report?

Comment 6 by rsesek@chromium.org, Jul 27 2016

I'd recommend running Malwarebytes on your machine: https://www.malwarebytes.com/
Project Member

Comment 7 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Aug 5 2016

Labels: -Needs-Feedback Needs-Review
Owner: b...@chromium.org
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "bnc@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
I downloaded and ran the Mac Malwarebytes and that appears to have cleared
up the malware issue. . Thank you for all your help. .
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Glad that worked for you!

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