There was a popup that said something was wrong as well as behind it, a weird screen saying something was wrong, both had a “apple” phone number to call for immediate help.
I knew the number was unlikely to be apple, so I called Apple myself looking up the number. They told me what to do and I had to reset the browser in settings or whatever. They told me it was malware and of course if I had called there would be someone telling me to pay $ to get rid of whatever. But it took one 5 min phone call and it was gone.
I was on safari. Sometimes I use chrome and even sometimes (when I need to upload docs) I use puffin browser.
"I haven’t seen any pop-ups, but I do get the same screen as in post#44 if I click on the “example search^” at beginning of thread."