Hi, as of last night, I started receiving intermittent notices of “Threat Secured” from Avast saying “We’ve safely aborted connection on floating.li because it was infected with URL:Scam”
This happens when I have either Google Chrome or Brave browser open, even with empty tabs.
I had no issues earlier yesterday so I am not sure what changed. When I ran the smart scan, it did not detect any issues.
Has anyone else had this happen? Please advise.
Any browser extensions that want to connect to that URL ?
Tried clearing your browser surf history?
Tried running a scan with Malwarebytes Adwcleaner?
Thanks for these suggestions. I believe the culprit was an old extension I had installed on both browsers called “Floating Player” that was supposed to give picture-in-picture functionality, but was ultimately made obsolete now that the browsers have that function natively.
Now that I have uninstalled the extension, I have also stopped receiving the threat notifications from Avast. Thanks again as I wouldn’t have thought to check the extensions myself.