Poll of the Day > i walked away for a few minutes, came back and a a google box was on the screen.

(+) Yeah! (+)

to sign back in.

ts done this with all my acer chromebooks, this is a 311. what is the meaning of this? anything to concern myself with? there were no 2 step prompts on my phone, so i imagine its some kind of glitch. i always leave the chromebook signed in please help. no new sign in's or anything.

anyone with experience with chromebooks that can help out, maybe some settings i can mess with? thank you.

i'm just worried its malware or something, very doubtful as i don't have any downloads and only extension i use is ublock.

this happened a lot on my old once again, acer chromebook where a google box appears to sign back in. i know a power wash wont help as i did it a bunch on that old one. surprised its happening with this one, but maybe shouldn't be as its an acer as well. but for 2 years hasn't happened, the only thing i was doing before leaving was on youtube, came back and the horrifying screen was there.

i hope i can get some solutions.

<img src="https://www.sfusd.edu/sites/default/files/inline-images/SignIn_0.png">

it may be something like this, but a bit more modern with the colored G for google near the top, just randomly appeared in an open session, please help.

Your token/cookies expired/got cleaned up. They are designed to do that after a while. It's only an issue if it does it so often that it's inconvenient, otherwise it's not a security issue.

There's no real schedule to when your OS decides to do these things, but there are settings you can enable to have it do it less.

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Your token/cookies expired/got cleaned up. They are designed to do that after a while. It's only an issue if it does it so often that it's inconvenient, otherwise it's not a security issue.

There's no real schedule to when your OS decides to do these things, but there are settings you can enable to have it do it less.

thank you so much. yeah, on my old chromebook it happened frequently, which was also an acer, i think 10 times in the year i used it.

so its ok to sign back in, in that box? nothing malicious? because there's no way to close it besides shutting down the chromebook with the button which i did, but i'd hate for it to pop up in the middle of something important and have to get out that way, like if i were watching something or in the middle of typing which happened on the old acer.

Tbh a lot of my knowledge of software also stems from my own insecurities in trusting things we're supposed to rely on. It would weird me out to use a phone every day and have no idea how it works like it's some kind of magic. Idk why I don't feel this insecurity towards things like engineering or physics, maybe because like you say there could just be some dude spying on us and we wouldn't even know. I don't mind the questions, but for your sake consider the fact that you are taking cyber-security so seriously makes you very unlikely to ever be hacked. There's also the fact that ChromeOs is inherently more secure than Windows by virtue of having a smaller user base. Why would a hacker bother targeting ChromeOs when they could just go after people using Windows? Say you're using something like a browser on a video game console. You probably have, by complete accident, the most secure browser out of anyone else.

I still have a lot to research on cyber security, until I get really into Kali Linux's official (paid) courses.

To answer your question it won't clear cookies while you're using it since it only clears it from the hard drive, more so only while in sleep/reboot. (Basically) never from RAM. If it's loaded into a program while you're using it, it's not going to just disappear mid-use.

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Tbh a lot of my knowledge of software also stems from my own insecurities in trusting things we're supposed to rely on. It would weird me out to use a phone every day and have no idea how it works like it's some kind of magic. Idk why I don't feel this insecurity towards things like engineering or physics, maybe because like you say there could just be some dude spying on us and we wouldn't even know. I don't mind the questions, but for your sake consider the fact that you are taking cyber-security so seriously makes you very unlikely to ever be hacked. There's also the fact that ChromeOs is inherently more secure than Windows by virtue of having a smaller user base. Why would a hacker bother targeting ChromeOs when they could just go after people using Windows? Say you're using something like a browser on a video game console. You probably have, by complete accident, the most secure browser out of anyone else.

I still have a lot to research on cyber security, until I get really into Kali Linux's official (paid) courses.

To answer your question it won't clear cookies while you're using it since it only clears it from the hard drive, more so only while in sleep/reboot. (Basically) never from RAM. If it's loaded into a program while you're using it, it's not going to just disappear mid-use.

yeah and i apologize for tolerating me, its becoming like everyday now again, i wake up every morning with the highest anxiety and depression and say to myself,''please no odd triggers today and for awhile.'' then bam something gets me frightful and then it intensifies all day until i get a relieving answer.

i wish i had the answer to get control, have tried many things. between medications and therapists and i'm treatment intolerant it seems.

this didn't happen in sleep mode it happened while it was open, and i came back. unless i'm missing something then please pardon me. xD although it had been awakened for maybe an hour or more after a night of sleep mode.