Strange Chrome Issue

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 2 Sep 2015 6:15 am

I check my computer this morning, and I have a separate instance of Chrome running with the URL of sportslogs/how-to-play-defense-in-basketball. The page just says the service is unavailable. I have never searched for, or gone to any site about basketball. Virus?

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 2 Sep 2015 8:36 am

It'd sure make me suspicious. Maybe not as serious as a virus, but spammers do all kinds of gymnastics behind the scenes to achieve website re-directs. If it turns out that Chrome starts autonomously and does that, there may be more to it.

I'd be checking all the auto-start entries to see if there's anything I don't recognize.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 2 Sep 2015 9:43 pm

Richard;
Go to the Options in Chrome and disable all extensions. Also, make sure your Chrome is up to date by going to Options (hamburger icon) > Help and About > About Google Chrome. At this moment, the current version is 45.0.2454.85 m

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 3 Sep 2015 10:27 am

Thanks Wiz. I am current. There are only 2 extensions running, and they both have to do with Google Drive. It only happened that one time.