Well.... My previous solution in Windows "Safe mode with networking" should help you out if you haven't done that. Alternatively, you could try using RKill to kill malicious software first. Then remove the identified files manually, afterward do a thorough scan with Malwarebytes, AdwCleaner, and HitmanPro. This should definitely yield some results.
This ever get fixed? I cant remove this.
Thanks, I'm working on it.
yes, chrome browser.
Thanks. It was with the Chrome browser ?
Thanks for the feedback. The first time browser reset to duck was after identifying and removing 2 unwanted objectes (PUP.LEGACY.OPTIONAL). The second time it happened, however, was after the next safe mode scan in which no unwanted objects were detected.
Hello,
It's not a browser hijack, it's the search-engine setting that AdwCleaner set after removing a malicious one. This will be back to google.com by default, with a dropdown in the Options UI to choose between seevral search engines.
Just to be sure, you say that Duckduckgo has been set even if you didn't get any Chrome or Firefox detections?
Agreed. One strange result after running AdwClnr v7 safe mode scan -- first time used search engine noticed it had been switched to duckduckgo -- figured it's a browser hijack of some sort so chgd search engine setting bk to google and removed duck from list.
I then searched for add ons and related software and found none. Ran v7 safe mode scan again next day. No unwanted objects found, but ag...
Accidentally installed adware on my computer. It did things like turning malwarebytes into a untrusted publisher. Fixed that but now AdwCleaner stops responding once it reaches post actions.
Une exception non gérée s'est produite. Appuyez sur Annuler pour terminer le programme pour réessayer de quitter le programme normalement et ignorer pour tenter de continuer.
Voici le texte qui s'affiche ( en anglais ), alors que l'analyse n'est pas terminée et, impossible de la reprendre.
Cet incident ne se produit pas sur mon portable. J'en déduis qu'il y a sur le "fixe" quelque chose qui "...
