Category Archives: desktop-faq

VirusTotal reports about malware in setup.exe

VirusTotal is a service which scans selected files with multiple antivirus engines. Settings for these scanners can be much different than the settings used on typical computers, and sometimes they report what we believe are false-positives. This happens especially with Antiy-AVL, Baidu, Cylance, and Qihoo 360. Please don’t report this issue to us unless antivirus…

Credentials in URL can be used for a spoofing attack!

(e.g. http://example.com@sample.com) Opera and other Chromium-based browsers consider this as expected behaviour. Even though the user lands on another website than the one written before the @ sign, the address bar is still the ultimate UI element which provides security information showing the actual website and not the web address written in the address bar.…

I see plenty of ads. I am using Windows

First of all, ensure that Opera’s native ad blocker is enabled and try enabling additional lists in Opera settings (Opera menu > Settings > Basic > Block ads > Manage lists…). It sounds like there is malware or a virus on your computer which is opening unwanted pages in your browser. Use reputable antivirus and…