For the past couple weeks, and for some reason it’s only at night between 10pm and 4am, I keep getting pop-ups saying a website has been blocked or that a threat was secured when I never get any new browser tabs opening said websites. This time a connection to “www(.)elitestoragegroup(.)com” was prevented because it says it’s a dangerous website, when again I never once visited the site nor got a window or tab pop-up. I even checked virustotal out of curiosity and it doesn’t even seem to have any viruses.
I ran Malwarebytes and it didn’t detect any viruses, I ran Adwcleaner and deleted what I thought was a trusted open-source github video download tool but otherwise don’t seem to have adware installed, I deleted a bunch of misc browser extensions that I decided I didn’t need anymore, I deleted all browser cookies and cache, but these Avast pop-ups just keep happening. What’s going on? Do I have a hacker who’s desperately trying to get my computer infected by typing me into a bunch of random websites? That’s an awfully inconvenient way to go about it.