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Ad malware in Chrome

Recently my Chrome has been acting weird. Whenever I click somewhere on a webpage a new tab opens with a scam ad (everything from "Your computer is at risk" to porn ads. But most of the time Reimage Repair ads). I have no idea how I got this as I'm very careful about what I install and download on PC and when I first got it I hadn't installed anything recently. I've run multiple anti virus softwares and only one of them works (Hitman pro). When I run a scan with Hitman pro I get a list of what seems to be malware cookies in my browser (anything from 17 to 123). I let the program delete them and then Chrome runs fine until I reset my computer. But recently this hasn't worked and even after running Hitman pro multiple times there are still cookies and ads in my browser. I've tried resetting Chrome, run Chrome's official anti malware program and even factory reset my computer (all tho it wasn't a full factory reset as I wanted to keep some files on my computer). One last thing to note about this is that the ads aren't there from the start when I boot my computer. I can be using Chrome perfectly fine from anywhere between 5 minutes and 2 hours before the ads pop up. I've checked all of my extensions for Chrome and none of them seem malicious either (full list: http://ift.tt/2rDB33K) If you want to know anything else feel free to ask questions. I just really want to get rid of this. Thank you in advance!!

Video of the malware in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oydgdhDOc2A



Submitted May 31, 2017 at 01:18PM by TheDuckMiner http://ift.tt/2scYsGe
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