This browser is compromised
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mikeogghertz last edited by leocg
I tested this browser on Windows 10 a few hours ago and used a login for a site that I'm using for a while now and never had any issues with. I am now receiving emails from that site for suspicious activity. One login from Thailand and one from Vietnam (I live in Europe). This happened two hours after I first logged in through opera GX and never happened before.
I will delete this Malware disguised as a browser from my computer immediately and I advise everybody to do the same.
I will never use software from this company ever again.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Did you have the VPN turned on in Opera GX? That could be why it flagged the login as suspicious as you'd be logging in from a different location. If you had the VPN off, it might just be the site recognizing a different User-Agent string where the detected location is just false for whatever reason.
Opera GX doesn't contain malware.
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A Former User last edited by
@mikeogghertz even without a vpn, Opera has servers, I believe, in those countries. It will only see the last 'hop', such is the nature of server compression browsers (opera, puffin UC etc..).
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jkels last edited by
@mikeogghertz This is a very uninformed comment. Without any further information it could just have been possible you activated Opera VPN and of course your "destination" in that case would be whereever the VPN server is located. The same would happen with any other browser in the same situation.
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mikeogghertz last edited by
@jdmbeastmode having or not having an anti-virus software installed has nothing to do with this issue. I of course do have one though.
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mikeogghertz last edited by
@burnout426 i did not have the internal VPN turned on, I went through the settings before I started using the browser. I have a subscription based external VPN Client that I am using when I need to, that one also wasn't turned on. Also it certainly wouldn't have been set to South East Asia.
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mikeogghertz last edited by
@53-north so you're telling me opera GX might route my traffic through somewhere in Southeast Asia for no reason and without telling me. I never heard of any browser doing that in my life and if it's true it's still a breach of trust.
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mikeogghertz last edited by mikeogghertz
@jkels you're calling me uninformed but just assume I don't know what a VPN is. Well I do and there wasn't any turned on so that explanation goes out the window.
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mikeogghertz last edited by
I will not discuss this any further, as I said I'm done with opera Software. This post was just supposed to be a warning about the experience I've had. Maybe I'm overreacting but trust was breached.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@mikeogghertz Opera doesn't do that. Unless, of course, if you are using the VPN.
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg They don't use the clearest path / pipelines?
You get the choice with some compression browsers to have 'nearest' server / clearest server / etc, feed the traffic -
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A Former User last edited by
@mikeogghertz If the servers in Iceland & Poland are too busy, I believe I've seen it happen occasionally (in the noughties).
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ponakka last edited by
I had Opera GX on my computer and it was really shady. I tried to love it, but it did not open the web pages with valid login credentials, so i had to change all passwords for security reasons. And also my window manager did not allow me to arrange the opera browser, but for some reason that app window was not registered as the other windows apps did. It was shady and broken.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@jkels Yeah, that has to be it. Opera GX's connections are direct and don't run through any servers (any Turbo compression servers or anything) when the VPN is off.
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lunamoonfang last edited by
@ponakka The window manager is mostly a problem on your side. Whereas not opening websites with valid login credentials are only present when the VPN is on and running.
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