Over the last few days I've noticed that if I do a Google search, then tell it to restrict it to News, then results are initially displayed then the page refreshes with a bunch of text ads at the top. I finally noticed today that the ads are from "RocketTab".

There's nothing in Winders Programs to uninstall for it, and there's nothing in Chrome's Extensions for it.

Any idea how I get rid of it? Is it Google's "approved ads" for Chrome, something to do with UBlock Origin? Something else?

It's mucho annoyingo.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.

I don't recall downloading anything on to it recently, but I haven't done forensics yet. As if I didn't have enough things to do...

Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.
("But I thought Winders Defender was supposed to be a great AV program!!!1")

No change.

Decided to delete all my Chrome Extensions except for TamperMonkey and UBlock Origin. That finally worked. Apparently one of the Extensions had been infected. Deleting all the others (an HP35 calculator, a font extension, an "Edit Office files with Google Docs, an HTML5 video autoplay stopper, and a couple of other similar things) got rid of the offending behavior.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Cheers,
Scott.