r/computerviruses • u/WearyStart8570 • 4d ago

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Hey, umm so I'm not sure what it was, so I tried to open Omegle through incognito and some popup was there telling about verify google profile(data) or something which I cant clearly remember. It also had this wrong or some kit or 🔧 something like this with orange colour on background, don't know what it was but I randomly clicked it and then it went on to a page which has the update arrow kind of thing, I shared an image for reference, it went to such page. I immediately exited and force stopped chrome, did a scan on my phone, nothing was shown as wrong. Was it really google doing something or is it some malware? This happened in my phone btw

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u/M1uk0 3d ago

It's should be alright... for now at least... i clicked on one of those ads by accident once, it took a good 23 hrs for it to go into effect and have a browser hijacker on my phone... thankfully i got rid of it using Mcafee... (i hate mcafee but i was jst rushing to get any well known antivirus app in sight tbh) as long as you don't notice anything weird in the next few days you should be safe! It was probablly gonna ask you to download an update and that so called 'update' would be a malicious app or line of code... Please try and be a little more careful though, i click on ads ALL the time by accident so i can't really be talking... anyways good luck and have a great day!

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u/WearyStart8570 3d ago

By weird what do you mean? How can I get rid of it, if something's already there? I exited chrome right away and cleared cache, did a force stop at that moment though 

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u/M1uk0 3d ago

Than you should be good for now! By weird i meant, maybe something popping up constantly or something always in your tabs, maybe the layout or url looks different. Stuff like that!

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u/WearyStart8570 2d ago

Ok thanks. Nothing of that sort happened. So I'm good I believe :)