Skype: Opening Unasked-For Browser Windows?

[(PeteCresswell)]

Lately, when opening my browser (Chrome), I have been getting
unasked-for Skype advertisements presented via conventional web
pages.

It's not my startup page bc sometimes when it happens I already
have the browser open and simply opened up another page.

Last instance, I opened a page at
http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx
and immediately this page opened up in a tab next to it:
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/special-offers/?intcmp=toolbar-complete&lang=EN

I re-opened the first link from a new browser sesh, and nothing
Skype-ish happened so I'm assuming it wasn't something in that
first link's page.

Anybody else?

 

[RayLopez99]

Lately, when opening my browser (Chrome), I have been getting
unasked-for Skype advertisements presented via conventional web
pages.

It's not my startup page bc sometimes when it happens I already
have the browser open and simply opened up another page.

Last instance, I opened a page athttp://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx
and immediately this page opened up in a tab next to it:http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/special-offers/?intcmp=toolbar-comple...

I re-opened the first link from a new browser sesh, and nothing
Skype-ish happened so I'm assuming it wasn't something in that
first link's page.

Anybody else?

I just went to that Rip DVD page and found nothing on Skype. Perhaps
it's a virus in your browser that hijacks your home page.

RL

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per RayLopez99:

I just went to that Rip DVD page and found nothing on Skype. Perhaps
it's a virus in your browser that hijacks your home page.

I was thinking something like that - not what I'd think of as a
virus, but something that Skype injects somewhere in my system.

 

[FromTheRafters]

Per RayLopez99:

I was thinking something like that - not what I'd think of as a
virus, but something that Skype injects somewhere in my system.

....or in the DNS that you use, poisoned or ...

ISTR occurrences of adware that changed ones DNS setting to point to a
rogue DNS service which injected advertisement sites in returns.

You might have adware running *on* your system, or just some remnant
setting such as a primary DNS setting to a rogue where the injection is
external to your machine.