Malware in browser on Ubuntu?

Question

By mistake I opened a link in a spam email and, even though the browser (Vivaldi) blocked the page from loading, I wanted to understand if there may have been a malware download or something else. There is a way to check if my browser is infected with malware?

Answer 1

To make sure that Vivaldi web browser isn't infected with malware run the following commands to uninstall and reinstall it.

cd ~/Downloads/
sudo apt-get --purge remove vivaldi-stable
wget -c https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_6.7.3329.27-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./vivaldi-stable_6.7.3329.27-1_amd64.deb