By that point I was not only frustrated but actually scared. THEN, because I felt "adventurous", I started browsing help sites on my Android phone (Dolphin Browser) and I wanted to scream: The same popup showed up there as well (see attached picture). While that scan was running, I was trying to find out more about the initial popup, I did that on my old, mostly unused though still updated laptop (Vista), using Opera browser, and of course, soon enough I got that popup too. I activated the Malwarebyte trial and did a full scan (including rootkits), the only result was a which I quarantined but that didn't change anything with my problem. So it's not browser related I thought, just great. I did that in Chrome, and hey, got that popup too in Chrome. I ran a full Avast virus scan (including boot-time scan, no results) and the Windows Defender, and downloaded Malwarebytes. Sometimes it even changed from a legitimate website I was one to one I definitely didn't want to go. From that moment on, the popup appeared again periodically, Firefox opened new tabs every now and then and sometimes new windows, mostly with the aviasale website, but also some more dubious ones (webcams, humour, even porn). Then Firefox opened another tab, going to which I closed. I don't usually get popups, so I kind of wondered what that was, then clicked on the X to close it. I was browsing in Firefox on my gaming/entertainment PC (Win 7, Avast Antivirus, AdblockPlus, everything up to date) when a popup appeared (see screenshot taken later on). Up until last Tuesday night, everything was normal. Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
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