How do I get rid of these?

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2021-04-11 at 17:14 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> My partner is having these obnoxious little windows pop up all over
> her screen and they each have to be clicked on separately to make
> them go away or even just to access what's under them.

That looks to me as if you have a browser infection - malware targeting
the browser. I've never seen such outside Windows though. It is
generally picked up via some kind of trojaning such as installing a
useful-looking but malicious plugin, or phishing someone to a malicious
website.

Luckily, such malware is generally fairly stupid - it's trying to drive
clicks and downloads, and is not directly destructive, and is very
obvious (as you've seen). But definitely do not follow any of these
pop-ups...

As far as I am aware the simplest method of eradication is to take a
copy of your bookmarks, create a list of plugins that are installed and
needed, then completely uninstall the browser (use "--purge") and re-
install it. Then replace the plugins that are needed and restore the
bookmarks.

Before *using* any bookmark, go through them all and delete any that
you don't know for a fact are needed. Check the targets on the rest -
because some malware modifies bookmarks. If you can do without the
bookmarks, just delete them too.

Regards, K.

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