How for the love of all things holy do I fix this?

SteamMau5 · Postby **SteamMau5** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:51 pm

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One find day I was browsing the fine interwebs, looking at some fine youtube videos and everything was just fine, but then my mouse freaked out and I accidently closed out every tab I had open at once. This isn't the first time this has happened so I didn't really care (as I am a bit of a spaz sometimes). However, upon re-opening all of my tabs...

THIS...

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Began to spam my screen, I've gotten this message before, and typically it's not very bothersome, but as of now, every web page I click on brings up like 10 or 20 of these windows and I can't finish closing out one before another one comes up. We'll take youtube as an example. I open youtube and the warnings pop up, I get them closed and everything is fine, but then I search for a video and they all show up on the results page next! This has never happened to me this badly before, and I would like to get rid of it. I run the "Opera" web browser and use Windows 7 if that helps.

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you for reading

Postby **Julia Pseudo** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:45 am

This might be some kind of adware screwing with your computer. I'd do some kind of malware scan if I were you, because man is that excessive.

FutureNyanCat · Postby **FutureNyanCat** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:11 am

MalwareBytes will do the trick. Your computer has caught an adware, so that didn't happen to me either. :/

silent_ · Postby **silent_** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:31 pm

You're computer's at great risk of having a damaging virus, or adware screwing your computer up. I would run some kind of scan, just anything but Norton AntiVirus since that is the worst program ever existed on the planet, and it just feeds off of your computer and distributes viruses and random popups. Might I add, if you have it, remove it.

SteamMau5 · Postby **SteamMau5** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:20 pm

So, I fixed the issue, all I had to do was un-install opera and re-install it (turns out I was using a severely outdated version anyway).

However, due to the many replies of "omg you have a virus of etc-kind" I've decided to get MalwareBytes to prevent any future situations like this from happening. Thank you all~ =)

And I suppose this topic can be locked/removed/thrown into the sun, or whatever you guys do with these, as my problem has vanished.

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:03 am

>Opera

What are you using, a Mac?

I would recommend, if you ever come across a virus, to get Avast! Anti-virus, it works extremely well. I would also recommend doing a full scan with it, as well as a full scan with Malewarebytes. I would also recommend running CCleaner the next change you get, and you should also defragment your disk.

SteamMau5 · Postby **SteamMau5** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 5:43 pm

Syndrilevosse wrote:>Opera

What are you using, a Mac?

I would recommend, if you ever come across a virus, to get Avast! Anti-virus, it works extremely well. I would also recommend doing a full scan with it, as well as a full scan with Malewarebytes. I would also recommend running CCleaner the next change you get, and you should also defragment your disk.

Thanks man!

And, no. I run Windows 7