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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Your Operating System has Poor Operational Security
 
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Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

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Is there any way a site can control your mouse through chrome?

I was looking around Slickdeals and all of a sudden cdkeys opens up to a pubg mobile tokens page. It then tried to add to cart and buy it, and I could watch my mouse move.

It took a bit of wiggling my mouse to get control back and cancel it.

I have adguard on pi. I ran windows antivirus as well as Malwarebytes and both found nothing.

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Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

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Jabor posted:

No they cannot. All the web security stuff would be entirely pointless if the web page could just grab your mouse and make it click on the "yes allow this page to use your camera" button.

What they can do is hide your cursor (while it's over the webpage and not some other window on your desktop) and show you a video with something that looks like a mouse cursor, in the hopes that you panic and click on stuff to try and stop whatever it's showing you.

You didn't type in any personal information in order to "cancel" this thing, did you?

No, I just closed out of the window and then imeditly ran the scans. I'll disable and uninstall all non vital extensions now as well.

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