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After scrolling website an image Hqdefault.jpg appeared on my desktop.
I did not put it there.
I scanned with malwarebytes and nothing was found.
I trashed and deleted the photo.
Is this something to be worried about?
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HP, W7 Home Premium, 64-bit, AMD Phenom II, Group A
@Sparky-
I’m hoping the answer could be further clarified, too. It is great that it sounds like something you shouldn’t worry about… but understanding where it came from could be important to identify or eliminate unwanted behavior.
Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter
@Elly-
I really don’t know for sure what website I was looking at.
I noticed the image on the desktop the next day after I turned on the computer.
I have my FF browser set to delete internet history when it closes, so I can’t look at previous internet history. By using the image I was able to narrow it down to a website, but I’m afraid to click on the link. The link came from doing a Google search.
I’m not for sure but I think this is the link.
“https://stopmodacruel.org/watch?v=iS_GvweY7_o”
Here is what the image looks like that was on my laptop.
https://img.youtube.com/vi/W9wzagWi8P4/hqdefault.jpg
Thanks,
Sparky
Dell, W10 Professional, 64-bit, Intel Core i7 Quad, Group A
HP, W7 Home Premium, 64-bit, AMD Phenom II, Group A
Definitely clean the cookies away, myself… so I know how that is…
Well, the good news is that VirusTotal doesn’t detect any bad stuff related to that link, and none of the searches I’ve done, and no one here, seems to be jumping up and down and relating it to malware.
Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter
“How does the image get saved to the desktop, by just viewing the web page ?”
Possibly an inadvertent/unrealized click on a web page? I really don’t know.
Sometimes when I am scrolling, the mouse slips off the scroll bar and I end up loading whatever link was under the mouse tail.
The link is to “Episode #44: Lyme Genomics with Dr. Bob Miller, CTN”. Could the jpg be a ‘topic header’ in the video? Or that it covered a link to something else? It would seem to be an indicator that a video is ‘high quality’
Q. Could the jpg be a ‘topic header’ in the video?
A. As I recall, the image was on the page just below a video player of “Episode #44: Lyme Genomics with Dr. Bob Miller, CTN”. The image seems to be on the same website as the video.
I did not click on anything on the website.
Dell, W10 Professional, 64-bit, Intel Core i7 Quad, Group A
HP, W7 Home Premium, 64-bit, AMD Phenom II, Group A
I really appreciate ad blockers, because I’m always making random clicks, so that would be my excuse!
Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter
I’m using Pale Moon with UBlock origin… and given that many websites ask politely if I’d disable the adblocker, because their income is from ads, I’d say it is working. However, per Panopticlick my browser configuration and add ons are unique, which allows for fingerprinting.
Sometimes specific websites don’t function well, like when I’m trying to see videos of a news event. Rather than bother with making changes to UBlock, I settled on having a chrome browser, with standard settings, and no add-ons for that particular kind of browsing. This is substantially ‘less’ private, but also does not have a unique fingerprint… and since I only use this occasionally, and go back to StartPage and clear browser cookies manually, before going to a new site, I’m not being tracked regarding patterns of use across the internet.
I stopped using regular Firefox… several years ago(?)… and am not familiar with what add-ons might work best for it.
Non-techy Win 10 Pro and Linux Mint experimenter
I must be living under a rock because I have never heard of Pale Moon. I will have to look into it and maybe give it a try.
I do the same thing as you with my chrome browser.
I pretty much use Firefox in private mode which seems to be tolerable.
Thanks for the Reply,
Sparky
Dell, W10 Professional, 64-bit, Intel Core i7 Quad, Group A
HP, W7 Home Premium, 64-bit, AMD Phenom II, Group A
One way an image can make its way onto the desktop from a web page is drag-an-drop (clicking on an image on the page and dragging it to the desktop). This is surprisingly easy to do accidentally and the file you found could easily be a youtube placeholder accidentally dragged to the desktop.
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