I have had success with Superantispyware. It found items Malwarebytes did not.
Not that I enjoy asking stupid questions I can answer anyway, but I have NEVER been able to figure out why any human being would take the time or delight in creating these things to harm innocent people who’ve never done any harm to them? Why? It just beyond comprehension to purposefully destroy something for absolutely NO reason?
Try this first.
http://downloadcenter.trendmicro.com/index.php?clk=tbl&clkval=355®s=NABU&lang_loc=1#undefined
then this
Generally, when AV-companies shows you tests (100% detection and so on), the test is fraudulent. That is because these tests are done against a small subset of viruses known as the wildlist. Compiling the wildlist is a small number of AV people and cronies. The problem with that is that the wildlist is a very small percentage of what is known to be in the wild.
What is known to be in the wild is collected by a couple of companies who, in practice, solicits new viruses. *That* list stands at several million. And those companies, like the subset-keepers, are paid by the AV-companies. At least, that was how things worked not very long ago, been a few months since I actually took that stuff apart.
If you deal with the AV establishment (like Trend, K7, Symantec, Norman and so on), there's a fairly high chance that you're being ripped off, contribute to very bad actors, or both.
Fixwareout.exe
It runs in a ‘DOS’ or ‘command’ box.
Run it in Safe Mode only.
Browse the web with a vmware machine running linux. Furthermore, use an “undoable disk”.
Well, it COULD be an extreme use of flash cookies to call ads, the link to the settings manager http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager08.html.
Only take a minute to delete all.
And make sure you use the “full scan” of sec essentials. I assume you checked your host file, cleaned your cache.
Good luck.
I find this tool helpful for Windows systems as well as linux you can boot it up and scan your system without any programs running has lots of good rescue tools you can find information about it at www.distrowatch.com it is called Trinity Rescue Kit.
If you download anything, especially from a porn site, then that increases your chances of hijackers/virus/spam...
Best way to avoid this is to not surf porn and to be very careful when downloading a file. Best way to download a file is to save it to your desktop, and then scan it before you install it.
Very likely. I saw somewhere a survey of infected websites, by country. It was staggering - half the websites in some countries are infected. I can't advise you what to scan your computer with, but it might be quicker and more certain to reload Windows. If you really must browse risky foreign websites, you ought to boot your Windows PC temporarily from a Linux CD (no installation required) and browse the Internet using the FireFox browser in Linux. When finished, remove the Linux CD and reboot to Windows. I don't know a safer way to "surf".
Make sure before you run your full virus and spyware scans, you reboot the computer first and press f8 inbetween the cmos startup and windows splash screen to get to the windows boot menu, choose safe mode without networking. You may end up with a very basic video setting with a decreased resolution, but work around it.
Then run a full virus scan on all drive partitions (C:, D:, etc...) on your computer. Then run any adware removal type programs to remove anything else. This may take an hour or more to finish the scan depending on how much data you have on the machine.
Also check your startup configuration to see if anything has been set to start everytime you boot that shouldn’t be there.
Quick way is to run: msconfig
You can start it by typing that in the run programs area.
Check the startup tab. You’ll see what programs are set load on reboots everytime. You can always google search on anything listed there that seems suspect by either the file name or program name. Just becare not to disable or delete important things like mouse and video drivers, etc...
Once all that is done, you can try reboot as you normally do. Hopefully, that will clean out anything that was missed before.
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