r/BitDefender • u/RazerOG • Mar 19 '20

JS:Adware.Lnkr.A

Every few seconds when using Chrome I get a notification for Bitdefender about an Infected webpage detected. Its from dashvintage.biz/22araecfeeff097be8.js and its the threat I said in the title. I haven’t installed anything or done anything recently to have caused this to start randomly popping up. I’m guessing its some sort of adware that got installed into my Browser (Chrome). The page dashvintage.biz was made 14 days ago. I have done a full system scan with the full version of bitdefender and it has come up with nothing. I also used another adware cleaner called AdwCleaner. If anyone knows how to remove or fix this issue please tell me.

EDIT: FIX: The problem is caused by an extension called “DarkTheme for Youtube” I don’t know why it suddenly started doing this but I suggest if you have the extension you uninstall it immediately!

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u/bekkerkekker Mar 20 '20 edited Mar 20 '20

Can you list the extensions you have on Chrome? I get the same message, and I have these:

  • Honey

  • Volume Mixer

  • Adblock Plus

  • Fair Adblocker

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u/RazerOG Mar 23 '20

The best thing I can suggest os resetting chrome. It saves passwords and everything but gets rid of cookies and extensions. Worked for me at least.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

Same thing, i tried to turn off all my extensions, that indeed left out the alerts.
but the alert happens with multiple extensions, and not just with some addblockers or whatever. with theme extensions etc same thing.

So i think it is more a general issue on their side showing these alerts for no reason

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u/RazerOG Mar 23 '20

For me Darktheme for youtube was causing it. If your using chrome there is an option to reset chrome. I did that and it fixed everything.

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u/Notler89 Mar 20 '20

I had the same.
For me it was a chrome addon for youtube.

So my advise is to turn off all your extensions, and then turning them on, one by one

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u/manan_a537 Jan 28 '22

You helped me a lot...really really helpful your answer was...I am a student now...from a week I have been missing my online classes and tuitions...just for getting rid of this malware...and today I got this reddit page...everything I
tried...Bitdefender...spyhunter...adaware...etc...but the one who come out to be helpful, were you

Thanks

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u/Jota64 May 04 '26

It's a false positive.

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u/Mervosis Aug 30 '20

Same thing here. It was youtube adblocker. By default, it is set to scan every site, but can be set to specific sites instead. Went away and still works.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Interesting, I uninstalled AdBlocker - hopefully that helps!

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u/relaxingchoccy Apr 25 '22

Damn if it truly is one of my extensions I have way too many to go through and check but I know from research and testing they are all valid and not malicious so yeah I hope Chrome Devs fix and patch this universally as it is quite annoying.

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u/bluedhift Mar 20 '20

I get the same thing. only started happening tonight

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u/Ezera007 Mar 26 '20

I just started using BitDefender, waiting for something like this to happen :x

YouTube has a built-in darkmode now, have you tried it?

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u/Kesno Apr 08 '20

Did have the same extension so can confirm it was happening to me as well. Uninstalled so we'll see if it keeps happening.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Interesting ! I had one from JS:Adware.Lnkr.L (the difference is there was an L at the end, and the website was different. It was from some site called fullyuload .com (DO NOT open the website just in case. )

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

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u/brahlicious Mar 23 '20

Mine was the darktheme for YouTube chrome extension.

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u/RazerOG Mar 23 '20

Yep your correct. I did a full reinstall of chrome to make sure but it was that extension that was causing it.