Unsure if it's a chrome extension or from this website, but sometimes when I have a WSO tab open in the background, I'll randomly get redirected to some scam fake McAfee website. Unsure if this is happening to others?
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Hey, any particular pages where it happens for you? Just forum topics or anything else?
Usually when I have any random topic open. It may not be a WSO thing, but I only notice it happens when I have it open.
This happens with me as well. When a WSO tab is dormant for a while it’ll just redirect itself.
Exactly—well said
I've noticed this before as well when accessing on computer without adblock/popup blocker.
This also happens to me. Seems WSO has a trojan horse infecting it.
never experienced this but I have ad/popup blocker
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