Hello all
I've got a very unpleasant browser hijacker or something re-directing my web traffic, which Sophos Free for Linux doesn't help with.
I was using a public wifi point and connecting through a VPN. I had several tabs open -- nothing pornographic. All of a sudden my speakers were hijacked by the sound of what I suppose is meant to sound like a porn model in ecstasy, although it wasn't that convincing :)
I didn't close anything, but carried on listening, and over the hour that I was monitoring it, it produced intermittent spoken soundtracks of about 30 seconds long at a time, on topics -- always in American English -- as varied as vegan nutrition and some sort of relationship advice.
When I went to check my online banking, I received an error message -- widespread, I gather, from my searches -- "The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator. Your support ID is [arbitrary number]." It affects the sites in the subject line, but also others, like Sophos's and Clam AV's download pages (and also, strangely, site to do with cricket statistics).
I'm using Linux Mint 18.2, Cinnamon 32-bit. It affects FF59.0.23, and the latest installs of Chromium and Vivaldi. I've done a manual scan but the problem remains.
Any ideas?
Helen B
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