Windows 10: Infected by chrome-updates.win phishing site

As with a lot of other people, just made an account to thank you guys for figuring this out. Removed Betternet and it was gone immediately; thought I had some malware or something. Thanks very much.

 

Joining the party as well. Mine was Hotspot extension. Made me anxious a bit, what's wrong with the VPNs though....

 

Hotspot Shield is also affected. Possibly a compromised API that the VPNs are using?

 

thanks you guys. I could not find any way in Korea, know the problem on this forum thanks you. 감사합니다.

 

Thanks for mentioning Touch VPN! I have tried to find the problem on my mac all day, and finally it is gone. I have used it for over a year, so it is weird it suddenly began bothering me.

 

Can confirm that Hotspot shield caused me the issue too, which is strange as I've had it for over a year now.

 

Mine was caused by hotspot shield too.

I disabled it but do I need to anything additional? Im running some scans now. Is there a way to tell if my pc was compromised? I'm afraid if using it now (currently posting from my phone on Firefox app)

Or am I overreacting?

 

The problem came up yesterday, it was Betternet VPN problem. Tried with antivirus and antimalaware but didn't work, deleted the extension and problem is solved. Thanks !

 

At first, I just assumed that it was a bug in Google Chrome, and so I left it, but then after a while it started to annoy me, so I researched it and found this forum, and I'm so glad I did as it solved my problem right away, I only made this account to thank everyone on here for their amazing help! Thank you!!!

 

For me it was removing the Betternet VPN extension. Thank you so much! Does anyone know if it is just the browser extension that is compromised or if I should also remove the Betternet program from my computer?

 

so for now... is there any other vpn alternatives..? or we should just wait for them to fix it..?

 

TouchVPN causes too i got infected and then Quickly Uninstalled the App and fixed Thanks guys

 

I had heard that betternet was causing it, and I have two chrome accounts, I removed betternet from both but it only fixed it on one, as I saw that it was also touchvpn, I removed from the account that still redirected me, and it turns out it's the only one with touchvpn, so now my problem is fixed, thanks.

 

If I didn't click on anything in the window (pretty sure I didnt) and i got rid of the vpn, am I all set?

 

I just want to say whoever discovered this I am really thankful for the solution. I have spent the morning and part of the afternoon trying to rid of these russian adverts. I had betternet and it was the root of the problem. I tried like 6 different malware helpers ffs, anyway SO MUCH*Biggrin