YukiTaga

Having the same problem, in the same immediate time frame, but not with CNN. I get the "blocked PUP" warning on any click involving www.forexlive.com C'mon Malwarebytes ... seems clear you have an issue here.

That's probably what I'll do (restore to default). I didn't want to do that with Chrome, because it would be such a pain to input stuff again for so many sites. But the other browsers serve other functions, so it's a good idea to do that with one of them. Thanks.

It's close to that, but not the same. Never happens on a new URL to me. Only when clicking on a dropdown menu item. Then, I get a black screen, but it doesn't quite fill the browser window like that, but very close, a matter of a few pixels. And on that black page, is the dropdown menu, displayed in the upper left hand corner. Not the menu itself, but all the expanded choices. And they're clickable, which immediately closes the black window, and the still open site window acts as if nothing unusual happened. It recognizes and accepts the choice I made in the black window. You can also make no choice, and hit escape, and the black window disappears. I've run all the typical "exotic" malware programs, and come up empty. I'm pretty sure now that this is some chromium issue. In any case, for me, on Chrome, it's gone away since I started running the beta (which imports almost all my stuff from the normal Chrome, so if there was anything malevolent there, I think it would be on the beta, too). Yet, on all the other chromium based browsers (not Firefox), I see the same thing. Fortunately, I use the other browsers for other things, so I don't even know if that's going on with them until I check. It will be interesting to see as those are updated what is still going on or not going on. I am guilty, over time, of having set a few flags on Chrome. I wish I'd logged them, and from now on I will. Google warns that these are experimental things, and that they can stop functioning, or even disappear, without any warning, and with possibly unpredictable results. So it could just be something like that. Thanks

Thanks. Yes, it's commonly suggested. But it didn't change any behavior on my system, on or off.

Thanks for the detailed reply covering the way to go about this. It's clear to me now, however, that this issue has nothing to do with Malwarebytes. Some are suggesting it has to do with flags set in Chrome. Unfortunately, there is just a freaking ton of flags now, and having set a rather small handful in the past, and failing to log those, I cannot remember for the life of me which ones I modified, or imagine even that any of them, mostly rather innocent tweaks, would be a cause. So, rather than "set all to default", which would undo things I'm sure I don't want undone, I downloaded the Chrome beta. Immediately, problem resolved. But only on Google Chrome. The other chromium based browsers continue to exhibit the undesired behavior. Go figure. Thanks again for your response.

After installing Malwarebytes, on Chromium based browsers like Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi, I'm experiencing strange behavior with drop down choice boxes (menus) on those browsers. Instead of a normal drop down list, where you'd select one and get some result, another page opens. It's solid black, except that the drop down choice menu is actually displayed in the upper left corner of that black page. And it works. All the choices are there, and clickable. When you choose one, this black page disappears, and the main page knows what you chose. And you can escape-key from it without choosing anything. But it's weird, folks. The behavior is not present in Firefox. Those drop down menus act as drop down choice boxes work like drop down choice boxes always have. Anyone with any ideas ... I'd love to hear from you. Yuki