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Techbrowsing adware
Ok so this all started 3 days ago on my probook 4530s running win 7 pro x64. A chrome window randomly opened and i just closed it thinking teamviewer opened their site. Today it happened again and i let it load to see what was going on. It was a site called Techbrowsing and i looked it up to find what it is. It is adware that can be installed in a software bundle aka a PuP. It monitors browsing and opens techbrowsing sometimes along with lots of other sites. I have only had it open techbrowsing twice in 3 days so i may have caught it early on. The reason i hope i caught it early on is it can collect personal data but thankfully all i used since it was on here was my mainly empty gmail, school email (that admin will sort out if issues arise), and minecraft account witch i doubt anyone would want. I have seen what to do online (scanning with Mailwarebytes ect) but virus scanners dont seem to pick it up, it also suggests checking chrome extensions but there is nothing strange in there. My pc seems secure and 100% clean but somehow this site has opened twice randomly in 3 days. I can't find much info about this PuP and its likely not to steal data as whereever it came from was proberly a ok site as i havent been going to shady sites. Any ideas please because it seems like im powerless