Constant Chrome Tab Opening (Possible Adware/Malware)

[Necromonger]

See attached photo. It is constantly opening every couple of minutes on my Chrome Browser, going as far as opening Chrome when I have it closed. It appears to be an ad for some kind of software called Click To Dictate.

 

IDK if its an extension/plug-in/app in Chrome doing this, but it is getting annoying now. I also don't know if this is attributing to my constant game minimizes that is going on too(Games exiting out of fullscreen for no apparent reason). Both of these problems began recently too. 

 

Any ideas? Thanks!

[kitsune1324]

I mean, if the game minimizes and you have a new tab that opened it's probably related. Try running some malwaye application and ccleaner tonsee if that helps at all, otherwise you could always uninstall and reinstall chrome.

[m0k]

check your extentions 

and then check your installed programs in ccleaner or just in control panel

 

im sure theres something there that was recently installed that you dont recognize

whatever you dont recognize - google it - its probably the adware you should remove

 

this doesnt sound too serious. ive seen then on someone elses pc and was just annoying and not harmful (hopefully)

[unknownmiscreant]

7 minutes ago, mok said:

check your extentions 

and then check your installed programs in ccleaner or just in control panel

 

im sure theres something there that was recently installed that you dont recognize

whatever you dont recognize - google it - its probably the adware you should remove

 

this doesnt sound too serious. ive seen then on someone elses pc and was just annoying and not harmful (hopefully)

This is a useful uninstallation utility I found for this sort of thing:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/uninstall_view.html

 

Gives you much more options and control than the built in MS varient.

[m0k]

36 minutes ago, unknownmiscreant said:

This is a useful uninstallation utility I found for this sort of thing:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/uninstall_view.html

 

Gives you much more options and control than the built in MS varient.

i mentioned ccleaner 

[unknownmiscreant]

4 minutes ago, mok said:

i mentioned ccleaner 

Not really sure why that is relevant???

 

The link I posted wasn't to ccleaner. ccleaner is made my piriform, and deals with cleaning surplus files and registry entries.

 

The software I linked is uninstall view, made by nirsoft, a utility dedicated to removing surplus software packages that don't always show up in windows add remove programs or control panel --> programs and features.

 

I have used it multiple times to remove this sort of nuisance-ware that intentionally requests to not show up in add remove programs.

[Derjyn]

unknownmiscreant - CCleaner also has a powerful uninstaller, services control panel, etc.  So, it's quite relevant.

[RossMadness]

As others have said, check your Chrome extensions and look for anything you didn't install. Google names of the extensions if you're not sure. Odds are, someone out there will be talking about it.

 

If this is malware, CCleaner isn't a huge help. It has a decent Uninstall utility and startup entry manager, but that's about it.

 

You can try running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware just to be sure. It may find more. Also take some time to look at your services in MSCONFIG. Be sure to click the checkbox for "Hide all Microsoft Services" so you see only third party ones. Google ones you don't know and uncheck any that seem unnecessary.

 

Good luck!

[Dr. Etadicha]

Following this post to find the cause of Click-to-Dictate tab continuously opening in my Chrome

[Dr. Etadicha]

Just looking at the picture you uploaded, I see you also have the text-to-speech Chrome addon (Little Circle with Triangle in the middle) - I just removed mine because I think it might be what's opening the Click-to-dictate 

[jvlopez]

I uninstall the extension Select and Speak from https://www.ispeech.org/ and the problem has gone no more clicktodictate spam