Posted on 05/31/2018 8:13:54 AM PDT by conservativesister
Downloaded BRAVE browser and keep getting something called Pay Trace, is this an infection? Ran Spybot & Malwarebytes, nothing showing. Any suggestions?
I have the android version of that browser, and have never had any problems with it. I don’t know enough to advise as to whether you have malware or just an incompatibility issue.
I have brave and I’ve not seen any pay tracker.
I think it’s possible to donate to Brave...that’s their business model, iirc. But, I’ve just stayed with away from that stuff.
Aw, come on... It’s called “BRAVE,” not “paranoid coward.” Don’t get so uptight about (”scare quotes”) malware and (”scare quotes again”) security.
(Yes, I’m purely joking.)
Try installing and running malwarebytes, stat.
What happens if I click that link?
What do you mean you “keep getting something”? ...a popup, a redirection to another page?
It is a link to the company’s website. It appears to be a PayPal type organization...................
I have the Brave browser running with Win 7, never had a problem. Check your browser extensions. Some times bad web sites will, unknown to you, add a malicious extension.
Some of these bad extensions will modify the extension area of your browser so that when you look at your installed extensions the browser will report you don’t have any extensions installed when you know you do.
Solution is to bookmark the sources of your extensions, back up your bookmarks, uninstall the browser, get a new download of the browser, install, reload your bookmarks and reinstall the extensions from the bookmarked sources.
When I click on the Brave icon, it takes me straight to pay trace, can’t find anything about brave
i did a search for ‘brave browser and pat trace and didn’t find anything- it does sound kinda suspicious that thel ink keeps ocminjg up on your browser-
i did a search for ‘brave browser and pat trace and didn’t find anything- it does sound kinda suspicious that thel ink keeps ocminjg up on your browser-
It could be related to this:
https://creatorhype.com/brave-browser-helps-content-creators-get-paid/
Don’t have Brave, although it is an interesting concept.
It worked OK until it came time to have it update itself. After flogging my internet connection for literally 10 times the amount of time that any other browser takes for an update I got worried, killed it with the Windows process manager and uninstalled it.
Updating Brave for me has been painless - it will announce that there’s an update available on a bar at the top and asks if you want to restart the browser now or later. I’ve been using it for over a year now and never had an update where it messes up an internet connection.
Brave is a great browser for privacy. Not sure what paytrace.net is, but try uninstalling then reinstalling the Brave app. That should fix your issue.
You could try Dolphin browser.
This is not about Brave but still tech related.
All I get when browsing the latest articles page is the article title, the excerpts have disappeared.
Any ideas of how to get the excerpts to show up again? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I’ve used Brave for a long time and love it. Haven’t had any such issue.
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