Questions tagged [popup-ads]
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Popup ad virus on both chrome and firefox
A pop-up ad box appears whatever site I am opening. Tried resetting settings, disabling extensions, removing all users on chrome.
It seems it is not about chrome since same thing happens on Firefox too which I hadn't even opened before.
I suspect it…
mumi
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An adware has infected 2 browsers
A weird adware is popping up every time I open a .com website and shows ad or redirects the page.
In chrome, I'm not even able to open an ordinary .com page because it immediately redirects to somewhere else.
I've reset Firefox, even purged and…
Nowruz
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How can I find out what site a popup ad came from?
This is the situation: I've been browsing the web for an hour in pursuit of some bit of technical information and have visited several dozen websites that I don't even remember anymore. I've finally found what I need so I start closing the web…
ændrük
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How to remove naganoadigei.com popup virus
Whenever I click any URL so that will open a new tab with this URL (Please be…
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How do I remove RocketTab ads from Google Chrome in Ubuntu?
I have certain RocketTab ads intermittently coming when I google something. Here is a screenshot:
I have checked all the extensions in Google Chrome. Nothing is related to RocketTab. Is there any manual ways that I can find where this irritating…
soham
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How to get all ubuntu programms back to fullscreen size after I'm not sure what I did?
I somehow managed to loose the ability of all my programs to resize on Ubuntu. Not sure what I did, but I thought I saw a popup open and being blocked in Firefox and after that all my programms opening like this screenshot:
I can neither double…
frequent
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Ad By: MediaPlayer
Help! I'm getting popups and ads all over the place and they all say "Ad By: MediaPlayer".
I'm fairly new to ubuntu 14.04 and thought that viruses were virtually impossible to get with Linux but it seems as though I have one that I very much want…
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New to Linux: troubleshooting help with Ubuntu 14.04 issues
I am new to Linux and I'm having several issues with my version of Ubuntu 14.04LTS 64-bit.
computer info: ASUS x200m touchscreen 11.6"
original os: windows 8
current os: ubuntu 14.04lts 64-bit
I can only use my computer by logging in through…
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New tab after clicking a link
I recently visited a website and I clicked a link suddenly a new tab appears about a survey. Was that a virus?
Jay-ar
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How do I block ads in Firefox
I have seen this question, which has some detail on how to block ads in Chrome/Chromium?
Is there anything I could use to block ads (and trackers as well) in Firefox?
Wilf
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Firefox's popping up advertisement windows
For more than two weeks my firefox opens popping up advertisement windows. Could there be a gap within Ubuntu update system? I think this way because I only apply updates that are sent by update manager and I use firefox for all my safe and serious…
Miraç Gül
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Chrome infected
I have Chrome browser installed and sometime in the last week it starts randomly open popup windows as I clicked in different sites. I suspect I'd been infected by some trojan.
I've scanned my machine with ClamAV and found nothing.
Can someone tell…
Hugo Lia
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Please sign in with google. Constant pop up
On many websites that require login, these annoying Google login prompts appear:
How can I block them?
totalconfusion
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how to copy text from a pop up window (gnome)
I'm coding in electron and when i get an error, it shows it in a pop up window. But i cannot copy the error. Does anyone know a solution? I tried to use Gimagereader to copy text from a screenshot but that doesn´t work. I also tried google docs but…
voyager
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Ubuntu 22.04 don't show popup with request of root password
Some app (teamviwer) needs root password to change configuration. I have problem, because when I click on button to "ask of root permission" nothing show.
It's the same issue one wayland and xorg.
I have second laptop this the same ubuntu, the same…
DevAxeQuestion
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