A majority of the code mimics the classic Google Chrome browser, but the difference is that some of the code is contributed by others. What Is Chromium?Ĭhromium is an open-sourced web browser project made by Google. This is what happened with the Chromium virus. While they allow you to customize your experience, viruses can also piggyback on their code and infiltrate your device. When something like this happened to my daughter's computer, Microsoft Defender did not detect it, but when I downloaded and ran the free Malware-Bytes scanner, it did find the problem and removed it.Open-source devices have their pros and cons. In all cases, you should run a good malware detector. If the problem goes away when you disable all browser extensions, then you probably have a bad browser extension. If you disable all browser extensions in Chrome and the problem still occurs, then you can probably rule out #5. If there is no infection on the web pages viewed on the phone or tablet, then it is not likely 1 or 2 or 3. You can probably rule out 1, 2 and 3 by checking the site on your phone or tablet while attached to your home network's wifi. router) is compromised and the contents arrives on your PC already infected.Ī malicious program got itself installed on your computer and it is injecting things into web pages as they arrive on your computer (either by modifying the incoming TCP or by messing with the browser).Ī malicious browser extension got itself installed on your computer and it is injecting things into web pages as the browser loads them. Something in your ISP is compromised and the content comes from your ISP already infected. If it is only on a specific site, it is possible that that site has been compromised and the content comes from the site already infected. To get mal-ware inserted into pages, you generally need one of these things:
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