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Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me

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On 2017-04-21, licensedtoquill@gmail.com <licensedtoquill@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I was indeed very confused but it all worked out OK in the end.
> Thanks for your kind attentions
>
> Now I have one more symptom. And it is consistent so I thought I
> should report it here.
>
> Every single time I swipe panes to the right and get to the pane on
> the far left, and I try to use the calculator, when I hit any second
> key on the pad, the pane switches to a browser (chrome) and that
> tamgrt.com/rt pag opens.

Note: You never answered my initial question of what version macOS you
are running. Can you please tell us now?

It's hard to tell for sure what you are referring to when you say you
"swipe panes to the right to get to the pane on the far left, and try to
use the calculator".

Are you referring to using track pad gestures to view Dashboard to use
the calculator widget?:

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201738>

Or are you perhaps referring to the calculator widget in the
Notification Center?:

<http://notebooks.com/2015/05/24/how-to-put-a-calculator-in-the-mac-notifications-center/>

Or are you referring to something else? 

At any rate, whenever a web browser is being invoked sporadically
without your permission, the first suspect is adware. So I have to
wonder if you still have remnants of adware on your system, or if you've
been re-infected since the last time you ran MalwareBytes.

If you run MalwareBytes again, please post the contents of the log here.
Instructions for viewing the log are higher up in this thread, since we
previously discussed it.

One final question: Do you have Chrome set as your default browser? If
you clicked the links above, did they open in Chrome, or another
browser?

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JR

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Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-21 11:51 -0700
  Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-21 23:21 +0000
    Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-22 09:07 -0700
      Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-22 17:43 +0000

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