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Why is a web page rendering improperly only on my machine, in all browsers?
I have recently created a website using GitHub and R/RStudio. In the last few days I have encountered the following problem: the 'resume' part of my website renders improperly on my computer, ...
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How to stop all web-workers? They're draining my battery
A great many websites leave "web workers" running in the background even after you've left their website and closed the browser tab.
I'm told that the only way to kill them all is to clear ...
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Google Chome how to fetch for malware?
In the last 2 weeks, I have noticed an annoying malware haunting me on Google Chrome. Most often when I do a simple google search (obviously on google.com), after a few seconds the tab gets cloned ...
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How to remove yahoo redirect from google?
Although Chrome works fine, in safari, whenever I make a Google search, the results are returned in yahoo search, which suggests a malware in my Mac. How can I detect and remove this malware?
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What's the worst that can happen when you visit a sketchy site?
Although this doesn't happen very often, on occasion, whenever I visit a new website when looking for information, it turns out to be one of those malevolent ones that attempts to open up several pop-...
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Browser sending unallowed requests
I've got some malware so now my browser is sending requests to strange sites:
Also if I click on any html element in a browser It may redirect me to unwanted pages
I've tried to fix this using ...
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Chrome google search getting redirected to bing
When I run a google search and I get back the list of the resulting pages. Sometimes if I click on one of these pages, it opens the page on a new tab and the result of the google search on the ...
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Prevent application from creating files inside a folder
Google Chrome has been injecting their own malware scanner, called Software Reporter Tool, bundled with their browser without any option for the users to select what the malware scanner is allowed to ...
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I updated Chrome through brew cask and getting suspicious behavior
I have updated my Google Chrome to version 59.0.3071.115 by using:
brew cask reinstall google-chrome
and now when I start chrome, it opens two tabs with these URLs:
http://www.prosoftwarepc.com/...
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How to remove click event new tab onclkds.com advertisement from chrome?
In most of the website including stackoverfow.com opens a new tab on the click event (mostly first click event) which will redirect to an advertisement. How can we remove this click event ...
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How easy is it for a hacker to access your webcam when you browse the internet?
Lately I've been reading about the “Dark Web” (Tor's network, not the “Deep Web”). Although I seem to have forgotten where it was, I was reading some blog post that said something like this:
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Is there a minimal browser specifically designed to prevent drive-by malware?
After my father's PC (with Avast and Firefox configured to auto-update in the background) got infected, most probably via a drive-by download, by a ransomware, I was wondering how I could prevent that ...
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I am unable to remove browser hijacker
I have noticed many times after few weeks my browser's search engine gets changed to some conduict search engine. But today i found a reason I found some suspicious third party software and when i ...
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IE and Chrome are requesting that I allow ect.html.gz to be downloaded for some sites
IE and Chrome are requesting that I allow ect.html.gz to be downloaded for some sites.
What is this file? Is it dangerous, or is this a malfunction of IE and Chrome?
The problem does not occur with ...
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Is this a hijack?
My home router was down the other day. I tried to use chrome, and I got the following error message:
DNS Lookup for "www.searchpage.com" failed. The requested name is valid, but no data of the ...
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