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...
Just 1 entry this time after updating.
# AdwCleaner 7.0.0.0 - Logfile created on Fri Jul 21 15:44:03 2017 # Updated on 2017/17/07 by Malwarebytes # Database: 07-21-2017.1 # Running on Windows 7 Ultimate (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support
***** [ Services ] *****
No malicious services found.
***** [ Folders ] *****
No malicious folders found.
***** [ Files ]...
sure, these are immunization entries detected from SpywareBlaster by AdwCleaner.
# AdwCleaner 7.0.0.0 - Logfile created on Fri Jul 21 15:18:41 2017 # Updated on 2017/17/07 by Malwarebytes # Database: 07-16-2017.1 # Running on Windows 7 Ultimate (X64) # Mode: scan # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support
***** [ Services ] *****
No malicious services found.
***** [ Folders ] *****
No...
Glad you could solve the issue. And yeah, Malwarebytes is amazing, but I have found myself using ADWCleaner as well, there are something things one software doesn't clean as good as other, which is why it is always recommended to do multiple scans with multiple anti-malware solutions, just to be 100% sure.
Looks like safe with nw did the trick. Same two elements were identified, but this time the removal process included a step "cleaning chrome", which definitely wasn't in any of the other scans. When I restarted in regular mode and ran another scan with v7, there were "no unwanted objects found". Super psyched!!
Below are two log files -- first is the one generated after removal of two unwanted...
Please try in safe mode, and share the scan and/or clean logfile :)
Thanks!
Ran v7. This time only found two elements -- same file "PUP.LEGACY.OPTIONAL". Computer restarted after I clicked clean/remove option. When I ran scan again, same two objects were found. If you can think of any options, please advise. If think running scans in safe mode w/networking is best option, I'll give that a shot.
Thanks again for all the help.
Hello,
Can you use the latest AdwCleaner version (7.0.0.0) from here; https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/ ?
Thanks,
