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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 65228" data-source="post: 706882">Google thought your online activity was &quot;suspicious&quot; and temporarily flagged you to enforce a captcha code to make sure that you were a human and not a bot. I believe it is actually a common thing when a VPN/proxy is enabled or a third-party open network is being used.99.9% chance that you are not infected with malicious software - unless you&#039;ve been going on suspicious websites or have downloaded and ran something. The likelihood is that the captcha code would still be persistent as we speak right now and not just for Google if you were infected - and considering you were using an open network as you&#039;ve already mentioned and it only occurred on Google (who do have such mechanisms for security), it only makes sense that there is nothing wrong.A malware author isn&#039;t going to make much money off tricking people into entering captcha codes because services which pay-out for this sort of thing won&#039;t pay out a lot - they&#039;ll be interested in stealing banking credentials or encrypting/stealing documents and demanding a ransom.I run into the captcha code issue with Google when I&#039;m on an open WiFi network quite often, and occasionally if a VPN is left enabled by accident. It usually becomes triggered when I am doing research and make multiple Google queries across different tabs in a short time span. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deleted member 65228, post: 706882"] Google thought your online activity was "suspicious" and temporarily flagged you to enforce a captcha code to make sure that you were a human and not a bot. I believe it is actually a common thing when a VPN/proxy is enabled or a third-party open network is being used. 99.9% chance that you are not infected with malicious software - unless you've been going on suspicious websites or have downloaded and ran something. The likelihood is that the captcha code would still be persistent as we speak right now and not just for Google if you were infected - and considering you were using an open network as you've already mentioned and it only occurred on Google (who do have such mechanisms for security), it only makes sense that there is nothing wrong. A malware author isn't going to make much money off tricking people into entering captcha codes because services which pay-out for this sort of thing won't pay out a lot - they'll be interested in stealing banking credentials or encrypting/stealing documents and demanding a ransom. I run into the captcha code issue with Google when I'm on an open WiFi network quite often, and occasionally if a VPN is left enabled by accident. It usually becomes triggered when I am doing research and make multiple Google queries across different tabs in a short time span. :) [/QUOTE]

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