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they do indeed seem to have subsided. i will wait 24 hours and report back to this thread tomorrow. thanks! the problem seemed to clear up yesterday, after removing and re-instaling chrome (where the issue seemed to be coming from) but came back an hour later with six fresh pop-ups. i have to wonder, where all of this is coming from? seems the malware board is swamped with this same bit of malware. old thread for reference, if it matters → https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=170034.0