Very Strange Black Boxes

Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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At some of the sites I go to I am seeing black boxes jumping around on the pages. It's very annoying. I just got an antivirus program after this happened and have also been using my spyware program. I don't know what this is but seems like a virus of some sort.

What do you think?
 

I don't think it's a virus if your virus program is working.

I think it has something to do between your browser and the site you are visiting.

And I think it's advertising of some sort and being blocked by the anti virus program.
 
It happens to me every so often and I believe it is a malfunction in my AdBlock, the bouncing little black boxes are where the advertisements would normally appear.
 
Roadwarrior said:
Quick question, are you using Chrome?
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Yes, I always do.

Camper6 said:
I don't think it's a virus if your virus program is working.

I think it has something to do between your browser and the site you are visiting.

And I think it's advertising of some sort and being blocked by the anti virus program.
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It started before I installed the antivirus program, though. It is black squares and triangles blocking site content.

Hoot N Annie said:
Shiraz??
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Hahahaha. Haven't had any today. :)Or anything else.
 
Ruthanne said:
Yes, I always do.

It started before I installed the antivirus program, though. It is black squares and triangles blocking site content.

Hahahaha. Haven't had any today. :)Or anything else.
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It's a Chrome problem -- google 'black boxes Chrome' It's a bug they have there are fixes that are quite involved, that's why I always use either Firefox or Opera.
 
Roadwarrior said:
It's a Chrome problem -- google 'black boxes Chrome' It's a bug they have there are fixes that are quite involved, that's why I always use either Firefox or Opera.
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I have Firefox but it's hard to bookmark things and transfer bookmarks on it. I also have Edge.
 
Roadwarrior said:
It's a Chrome problem -- google 'black boxes Chrome' It's a bug they have there are fixes that are quite involved, that's why I always use either Firefox or Opera.
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It said to clear browsing data and I did. I'll see what happens next.
Thanks for identifying the problem.
 
I've been mostly using Firefox, but sometimes use IE11, haven't seen any problem like this on either of them. I don't use any ad blockers, and my anti-virus is Norton.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I've been mostly using Firefox, but sometimes use IE11, haven't seen any problem like this on either of them. I don't use any ad blockers, and my anti-virus is Norton.
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Thanks for your feedback. I am on the browser Edge at the moment. Only problem is I didn't keep track of a lot of my passwords. Had to reset the one here at SF. No problem, though. :)
 
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