My daughter’s laptop caught this one....had to take it in to Best Buy to get it restored...system restore was possible but the malware (or whatever it’s called) kept it from taking the system restore back far enough.....think it put a false date for the malware install.
The bad guys who write the variants on this malware are good. Very good. It changes constantly. It gets harder to clean each time.
With the ecosystem of the Mac pretty much demanding that the only real remedy is the “restore” I wonder what will happen once most of the malware damages restore so it won’t work properly? People will be REALLY happy then. :) Guess what, just like Windows, but without the decades of experience making cleanup tools.
Your daughter’s laptop wasn’t a Mac, was it? Best Buy folks are incredibly ignorant of computer repair - and Macs - LOL...
But to get back to the original post - this isn’t really malware. It is simply a web page opening a bunch of windows via javascript (a big vector for all sorts of computer issues these days). But no computer “catches” this.
Now - there are trojans that show similar behavior - maybe that is what your daughter’s laptop was infected with (assuming again it is not a Mac - which there still isn’t a major threat for).