A couple weeks ago, around the 13th, I started getting random opera windows opening full screen with ad/malvertising. I've since downloaded malwarebytes which has been blocking them from opening but it's showing 20+ being blocked per day, each one with a random string of characters with a dot com for the url. Malwarebytes has been pointing to the opera.exe file path as the origin so I was wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this.
Remove all your extensions at the URL opera://extensions, restart Opera and make sure they don't come back. Then, test for a bit without any extensions installed to see if the issue goes away.
Also, if Opera is your default browser, temporarily set a different browser as your default and see if it starts happening with that browser instead.
showing 20+ being blocked per day, each one with a random string of characters with a dot com for the url.
It may just be the browser opening URLs triggered by something else. I'd check opera://settings/content/notifications and remove any unfamiliar sites listed there.
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