[SOLVED] Installed Kasperspy FREE and now bombarded with message saying it's blocking CDN.Special images

[Frank Sebem]

Hoping someone can help...

I read a consumer magazine in the UK called Which? It is a brilliant magazine and it recently suggested the best Virus checkers. Out of all available it suggested the 3rd best available outright was Kasperspy FREE. Therefore, I installed it. Ever since then it has bombarded me with messages in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I'm not complaining about the bombardment but I would like to know how to rid my P.C of the virus/malware etc that is triggering Kasperspy. As I have been typing this Kasperspy has blocked at least 20 offending items. They all start with the following

https://cdn.special-offers.online/icons

By the end of typing this there is now about 100 instances. Therefore, I clicked on 1 of them and here is what it says:

Download denied chrome.exe Blocked https://cdn.special-offers.online/icons/sexyimages/28.jpeg

The details of one of these critters is shown below:

Event: Download denied
User: DESKTOP-JTI12U1\Home PC
User type: Active user
Application name: chrome.exe
Application path: C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application
Component: Web Anti-Virus
Result description: Blocked
Type: Probability of unauthorized software download
Name: https://cdn.special-offers.online/icons/brandsIcons/Tinder_n6.png
Threat level: High
Object type: Web page
Object name: Tinder_n6.png
Object path: https://cdn.special-offers.online/icons/brandsIcons
Reason: Cloud Protection

Any ideas how I can rid myself of cdn.special offers?

Thanks all

PS...Just I was about to send I got another pop up (bottom right) saying that it was a previously opened malicious link

 

[Krotow]

More likely that you clicked on a link on some redirector page which also added something funny to your browser cache. Or some of rotated ads contain a payload to kinky ones. Clos all tabs in a browser. Then clear your browser history (also cache and cookies) and close browser. Then check if these links appear again.

 

[Jacozeelie]

Check your programs list, you might have addware

 

[Frank Sebem]

Thank you guys.
As advised... I looked in programs and couldn’t find anything suspicious. I then cleared total history and restarted... And like Magic the problem (appears to be) solved!
have restarted PC a few times. No issues. Been using it for a couple of hours. No issues. It would appear that the advice here has solved my issue.
thank you all.
PS, for educational purposes what do you think the issue was?

 

[Krotow]

PS, for educational purposes what do you think the issue was?

Nowadays advertisement banner aggregation services rotate advertisements from various ad sources without bothering what exactly their ads contain. Because money don't smell. Sometimes HTML advertisement banners contain payload for more interesting stuff like permanent adware loaders, payload droppers for trojans and viruses, cryptominers and other funny stuff. If system and browser in your system is patched, you are relatively safe against such crap. History cleanup can help here.