I recently installed a fresh windows 7 x64 home premium on my computer + some niche drivers from my computer's manufacturer. On random occasions, when I try visiting a website, it loads gibberish source of the webpage or it download's a download file as seen in screenshot below. Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?
If the problem was repeatable you could see if the same behavior occurs in Safe Mode with Networking.
Since you say this is random on a fresh install, and on all browsers, you can assume a system issue. Malware is certainly a possibility, have you run any scans? Suggest scan with MalwareBytes, and Superantispyware.
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I'd also download and run AdwCleaner (choose the Download@ Bleeping Computer link)
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The downloads you show, where do you find them? Do you type an address in the address bar of a browser, and get a download dialog, or?
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