{"id":4133,"date":"2016-02-26T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2016-02-26T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:31:00","slug":"computer-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"Computer Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Originally posted in Facebook&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p>Google Chrome (in Windows 10) browser just exploded in my face with a malware takeover attempt. Blue error page and a very loud female voice repeating a verbal warning. I took NO &#8220;Click Here&#8221; action presented on screen. All other functions were locked. Pushed computer OFF button to a stone cold dead shutdown. Reboot took some time but malware warning was gone. Immediately deleted Google Chrome and DID NOT permit Google Chrome in message popup to, &#8220;Permit Google Chrome to make alterations to this computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be back in control but am hesitant in re-installing Google Chrome. Windows Explorer and Firefox are running normal. If this happens to you, take this action and DO NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS ON SCREEN! I hope this was only me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Installing Windows 10 gives Microsoft permission to edit and do &#8220;upgrades&#8221; to the OS at anytime. The idea is that owners will always have the latest upgrades without waiting for a new version (i.e. Windows 11) to be released. That means there will be times when things suddenly don&#8217;t work the same.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if Google Chrome was the source or the target in my hijack attempt. I seemed to have handled it appropriately, for now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted in Facebook&#8230; Google Chrome (in Windows 10) browser just exploded in my face with a malware takeover attempt. Blue error page and a very loud female voice repeating a verbal warning. I took NO &#8220;Click Here&#8221; action presented on screen. All other functions were locked. Pushed computer OFF button to a stone cold dead shutdown. Reboot took some time but malware warning was gone. Immediately deleted Google Chrome and DID NOT permit Google&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,96,98],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer","tag-sofware","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}