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I was surfing the web on my phone. All entirely respectable sites that I've read for a long time. But one site (or a banner ad on it) redirected me to somewhere, and that "somewhere" showed a message box with unlegible (binary) text in it, and then a page opened where it said, in broken German, that my phone was infected and that I needed to install some app from google play (needless to say, I didn't)
Should I be concerned? The random text in the first message box in particular, looked like it could be an attempt to stage a stack overflow attack or trip the browser in some other way (why else call alert() with a binary string.)
Is there something else I can do apart form changing the passwords? Should I change the passwords of the sites Chrome knows the password to because I logged in on them at some time in the past and had Chrome remember the password, too? Thank you for all your helpAsmrulz (talk) 20:50, 22 July 2015 (UTC)