Unwanted tabs opening up
Reported by
drchanow...@gmail.com,
Jul 24 2016
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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
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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
Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
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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Jul 26 2016
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)
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Jul 26 2016
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.
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Jul 26 2016
Now, literally while I was forwarding this message to you, this appears. .
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Jul 27 2016
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?
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Jul 27 2016
I'd recommend running Malwarebytes on your machine: https://www.malwarebytes.com/
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Aug 5 2016
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
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Aug 5 2016
I downloaded and ran the Mac Malwarebytes and that appears to have cleared up the malware issue. . Thank you for all your help. .
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Aug 5 2016
Glad that worked for you! |
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Comment 1 by b...@chromium.org
, Jul 25 2016Labels: Needs-Feedback