Full-page ads randomly pop up in Chrome ("Sponsored by") Sometimes I get this odd behavior while using Google Chrome:    It appears only sometimes; I can usually get rid of it by refreshing. Is this from some extension? Should I suspect malware? What should I do to figure out what's injecting this stuff?  Also, subjectively speaking, Chrome's felt much slower lately.  edit: there is a rogue extension (). I will debug.  update: it was JQuery Injector, which has now been removed from the Chrome store.
How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC? What should I do if my Windows computer seems to be infected with a virus or malware?  What are the symptoms of an infection? What should I do after noticing an infection? What can I do to get rid of it? how to prevent from infection by malware?   This question comes up frequently, and the suggested solutions are usually the same. This community wiki is an attempt to serve as the definitive, most comprehensive answer possible. Feel free to add your contributions via edits.
Inadvertent use of = instead of == It seems that   if (x=y) { .... }   instead of  if (x==y) { ... }    is a root of many evils.  Why don't all compilers mark it as error instead of a configurable warning?  I'm interested in finding out cases where the construct if (x=y) is useful. Software needed to scrape data from graph Anybody have any experience with software (preferably free, preferably open source) that will take an image of data plotted on cartesian coordinates (a standard, everyday plot) and extract the coordinates of the points plotted on the graph?  Essentially, this is a data-mining problem and a reverse data-visualization problem. First off, here is some code:  int main()  {     int days[] = {1,2,3,4,5};     int *ptr = days;     printf("%u\n", sizeof(days));     printf("%u\n", sizeof(ptr));      return 0; }   Is there a way to find out the size of the array that ptr is pointing to (instead of just giving its size, which is four bytes on a 32-bit system)? Can you play a Progress Card even when you get nothing from it? If I have a Progress Card for which initial preconditions do not hold, will I still be able to use it in order to discard it back to the pile? The goal is to prevent a spy from stealing it.  A few examples:   I am leading in victory points but I want to use Wedding card. I have Irrigation but I don't have any wheat hexagons. I have Blacksmith but I don't have any ore hexagons. Title page line spacing I have a simple problem but I didn't manage to find any answer for it. In my title page, I just used  \title{Name of the title}   then  \hrule height 0,1cm \leavevmode \\[0,5cm]     {\Huge{\textbf{\@title}}}\\[0,5cm] \hrule height 0,1cm \leavevmode \\[0,5cm]   to print the title of my document. But it takes more than 3 lines on the PDF file, and I have a different spacing between the 1st and 2nd line compared to the 2nd and 3rd, which is a bit frustrating.   Anyone got an idea of why ? How to determine which form has been submited and to validate them in a servlet If $a,b,c$ are positive integers,and $\cfrac{a}{b}+\cfrac{b}{c}+\cfrac{c}{a}$ and $\cfrac{b}{a}+\cfrac{c}{b}+\cfrac{a}{c}$ are integers then $a=b=c$ If $\cot A+\cot B+\cot C=\sqrt3$ then prove that the triangle is equilateral triangle.   Trial: I can counter check that this is true as $\cot 60+\cot 60+\cot 60=3 \frac{1}{\sqrt3}=\sqrt3$.Here I also know that $A+B+C=180$. But I am unable to show it. Please help. Book about almost extinct warrior race with three castes: sen, kaa, ker The aliens in this book are an humanoid alien mercenary race, fighting for some other aliens, against humans?.   The Ker are the fighters, the sen are the wise ones, and the kaa the family/non-fighters.  Their clan gets almost wiped out because both their employers and humanity fear them, and the last survivors head towards their race' home planet, together with a human captive, who learns about their ways.  The other aliens are some blob-like aliens with little genetic variety.  Ring any bells? How many files can a windows folder contain?  This question is asked  but then the question text pollutes the question with issues of "rules of thumb"  So to be clear, this question is: How many files can a windows folder contain? Let's have 2 numbers, N and K, where K divides N. The number of K-combinations from a given set S of N elements is a well known formula. Let's concatenate N/K groups (resulting in N elements) such as the resulting set is N. How many possibilities are there, i.e. what's the formula?  For instance:    N=4, K=2, C(4, 2) = 6 {1,2},{1,3},{1,4},{2,3},{2,4},{3,4}   The 3 possibilities are:     {1,2},{3,4}   {1,3},{2,4}   {1,4},{2,3}   I generated these combinations and I think the number goes like this:  (4, 2): 3 (6, 3): 10 (6, 2): 15 (10, 5): 126 (9, 3): 280 (10, 2): 945 (14, 7): 1716 (12, 4): 5775 (15, 5): 126126 (15, 3): 1401400   Apparently, the result always divides with (N-1). Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++? What are the benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?  Lately, I have seen a number of examples that chose passing function arguments by pointers instead of passing by reference.  Are there benefits to doing this?  Example:  func(SPRITE *x);   with a call of  func(&amp;mySprite);   vs.  func(SPRITE &amp;x);   with a call of  func(mySprite); Field level permissions in Drupal 7 What is the best way to create a piece of content with multiple fields... allowing users to edit the content as a whole yet blocking the ability to edit.  The setup I have is a piece of content that has 3 fields: Body, PDF, SWF... and a "Selector" (List Text) that's tied via dependancy. So the user chooses BODY, PDF or SWF and that's what available to edit and shown on the page when live.  What I want to do is add a PHP field... that's either:     greyed out (unable to edit) if your not admin...   doesn't show up in the Drop Down list... Can't select it if you can't see it Shows up on the drop down, but the field doesn't show up in the editor without permissions.   I hope I'm making sense... I can provide an example if needed. In Windows 7, How to query times, when the computer was locked? Is there a way to get a list of the following times:  whenever windows is locked (using windows+l combo)  whenever windows is unlocked in the past week?   I've tried poking in the event log, to no avail. Many thanks! How does the wording "for each" work? Some cards in magic has something happen for each {something}. For instance:  makes you gain 2 life for each creature you control. Tapping  adds one green mana to your mana pool, and you gain 1 life for each non-land card revealed.  How is this life gained: all at once or "one bit" at a time? Say I tap Selvala and 1 land, and 2 non-lands are revealed: do I gain 2 life, or do I gain 1 life two times? Would  have one or two +1/+1 counters placed on it if I had it in play at that point? I have my new Microsoft Surface and I was wondering whether it's possible to install pieces of software like MikTeX and TexMaker on this tablet. Does anyone know? How do I kill a process that won't die? I'm unable to kill a process using any of the techniques I'm aware of ("Force Quit" in Activity Monitor, top, killall from the Terminal) and wonder if there are some additional steps I can take.    ~ $ sudo killall -KILL 77439 Password: No matching processes were found ~ $ killall -KILL 77439 No matching processes belonging to you were found ~ $ killall 77439 No matching processes belonging to you were found ~ $ killall Mathematica No matching processes belonging to you were found   FWIW the process is "Mathematica" which I cannot relaunch, Quit, or Force Quit, or sample, either by name or PID, and it appears to have some odd side effects (screenshots don't appear, can't empty trash, and can't even shut down the system).  Are there additional steps that can be taken to really really kill a badly behaved process? Change Folder Permissions In Unity3D, how do I create an efficient scratch card effect? I want to create a scratch-card-like effect in new Unity UI's new Image tag.  I know it's possible with setPixels, but that's prohibitively expensive on mobile devices.  Something like this:    I'd like the user to be able to drag on any part of the image to "scratch off" the top layer and reveal the content underneath it.  How can I do this? To flag or not to flag question that don't show own effort? I am a little confused about what do with questions that are just asking      "I want this and that (...) and I want it to look exactly like that   (...) please help"   without showning ANY own effort?  According to  those kind of answers are not welcome  also the  says those questions should not be asked:     Don't ask about...   Questions you haven't tried to find an answer for (show your work!)   But does this mean that I should flag those kind of "helpdesk" questions or not? And if yes as what? low quality ? flag for moderator attention ? Or is just adding a kind comment asking for the asker's own attempts enough?