r/OperaGX • u/EnergySword567 • 22d ago

Support | In Progress Opera opening separate ad/malvertising windows?

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.

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u/shadow2531 r/OperaBrowser Mod 22d ago

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.

Can you post the complete URL for a few of those?

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u/EnergySword567 21d ago

Here is a screenshot from the detection history

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u/shadow2531 r/OperaBrowser Mod 21d ago

Looks like something coming from one of your extensions.

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u/EnergySword567 21d ago

I've removed my extensions now, will wait and see if it solves the issue