I've been doing the "Which keyword best describes the merchant" all day, but just now it linked me to a website that gave me a trojan virus. Good news: I have AVG, and the virus was instantly terminated with a restart. Bad news: In deleting the virus, my entire chromium browser had to be wept as well. I am now on an older version of chromium posting this. Be cautious everyone, I recommend you definitely get AVG if you don't have it, and perhaps plugins such as noscript and/or adblock would be necessary too.
I'm well over 1500 hits into his and I have had a few websites that my avast has blocked. One was a trojan and the others were just the security certificate has expired and a couple malware site. I'm running the free version of avast it does a great job at blocking that shit. Also I made sure and told him in the any comments section as well. Just so he knows for future reference.
I have no idea, but I now have the latest version of Chromium re-installed and things are back to normal.
Fair enough. I realize this isn't a tech support forum but I'm just wondering if it wasn't a problem with your browser? It makes sense to me that if it was a website it would end up in a temp folder rather than the actual browser executable. Just a thought.
It does seem odd (and I considered that), but I'm about 90% sure it wasn't my browser but the website I was linked to.
I believe that Chrome (and Chromium) sandbox their sessions. Theoretically, that means that any malware should only have access to the browser and the RAM and shouldn't be able to infect any further into the system. That would be why only the Chrome.exe was affected.
If anyone is using Firefox, I highly reccomend the Noscript plugin. It prevents all kinds of bad things from running unless you specifically allow it.
