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Chrome Redirect/Pop-ups

EagererBeaver · 2016-10-28 07:30:26

I'm having an issue with Chrome on my OP3. I'm regularly clicking links to pages I want to go to, the page will load and then will redirect to some sort of spam website. I downloaded malware bytes and ran a scan. It turned up nothing but the problem seemed to by and large stop, perhaps something to do with some form of…

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28-10-2016 8:30am

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EagererBeaver

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I'm having an issue with Chrome on my OP3. I'm regularly clicking links to pages I want to go to, the page will load and then will redirect to some sort of spam website.

I downloaded malware bytes and ran a scan. It turned up nothing but the problem seemed to by and large stop, perhaps something to do with some form of active defense it was running. Since I uninstalled it, the problem has resurfaced.

Anyone else have this problem and is there a known definitive fix?

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#2 01-11-2016 5:08pm
Iseedeadpixels

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What was the app you downloaded before it started? I had a MP3 downloader and it was horrendous for the spam on Chrome, once I deleted it the spam stopped.

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