# malware.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malware/589486>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 18, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malware/589486 "2011-07-18T20:17:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malware/589486/1 "2011-07-18T20:17:05Z")

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I’m not a techie so apologies if this is unrelated:

but as soon as i logged onto Great Debates just now malaware started reporting malware attacks with Chrome and this was the only page open.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malware/589486/2 "2011-07-19T05:18:01Z")

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Could you tell us more about this experience?

What did you see/what kind of message did you get?

We take this sort of thing seriously – and we apologize for your inconvenience – but we need more information, please.

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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malware/589486/3 "2011-07-19T05:45:21Z")

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> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> We take this sort of thing seriously

Cite?