Some guy messaged me on another site (in which I had mentioned adblock plus when some stuff was spamming bad images) and said that there was an update and provided me with an innocent looking download link.
Turns out it was a browser hijacker or something. I don't even know exactly what it did but my parents "family safety filter" sirens went off prettymuch every other page I visited. I never saw any difference but apparently my computer was trying to access research sites. I'm wondering if it was trying to, idfk, change ad destinations or throw broken popups at me or what?
Anyway I redownloaded ABP from the official site after deleting the weird stuff with malwarebytes. It didn't seem to put up any resistance.
Has anyone else ever run into anything like this where it doesn't just mass-spam your browser, it tries to make it look like it's visiting certain pages as if a real person were doing so?
