Pop up warning about add-on is a virus

Viruses and worms
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We have frequently been getting pop up warnings on our network. The warning comes up when starting a browser. It’s red and in the middle of the screen.
Has Avast on it and warns of an add-on that has a bad reputation from other avast users. There is a remove tab on it. Last week one of our users click on the remove tab and his computer went completely whacko. It took a long list of cleaners to get it back up and running.

Does anyone know where this is coming from and how to stop the pop-up??

Thanks…Jim

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Hello and welcome to the Forum! :slight_smile:

Could you please post a screenshot of the popup?

DJBone

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Don’t have one right now, but will post when it happens again.

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Ok, thanks.

DJBone

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I have Avast pro, and I continually get this pop-up - not sure why Avast thinks my HP laptop software has a bad reputation. This pop-up seems to match the previous entries. I have never ‘clicked’ on it… as I don’t believe it is a bad add-on

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ps - how do I get rid of this pop-up??

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yeah i have same problem too,

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I have also a problem every time i open my browser chrome and Firefox this will come out…

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Please start your own topic, click here to do so: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?action=post;board=4.0

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Yes. Also a popup here. Any answer on how to disable this?