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I've read through the posts here and tried many things suggested in the posts: I looked into my Task Manager and couldn't find any suspicious processes running; I did a full system scan with Windows Defender; I even wiped clean my hard drive and re-installed my Windows 8 OS and applications/programs.
But I just can't get rid of this:
It never appears on "major" websites like www.microsoft.com or www.usnews.com; it most often pops up on forums, like www.cplusplus.com/forum/ or www.linuxforums.org/forum/; it advertises anything (usually obscure) from car rental business to insurance.
When it pops up, I immediately look into Task Manager, but I can't find any new/suspicious processes running; I tried to "inspect element" on Chrome but I don't know where I should look...
I'm suspecting if some existing program is causing this, because I have the exact same programs on my PC before and after I re-installed my OS. But all my programs are developing tools like Eclipse, GitHub, Visual Studio, etc (except for Foxit reader; but again, I'm not running it when I see the pop-up)
I get this pop-up almost daily--Need help!
Does it do it only in Chrome, or in other browsers as well? Have you tried disabling/removing any/all installed Chrome extensions? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2015-03-05T18:39:17.957
As the Answer below suggests, you might want to try several different malware programs. Failing that perhaps try defense+ from Comodo antivirus or a similar program. I once reported a new virus this way, but, you may have to do some guessing.... comment again if that fails... – user1833028 – 2015-03-05T21:00:28.350
This pop-up seems to only appear in Chrome...I'm switching to Firefox and hopefully that'll resolve the issue – Yibo Yang – 2015-03-06T01:39:35.777