Windows 10 users should treat a resurfacing adware family called FileTour as more than an annoyance: it can silently weaponize your browser, steal CPU cycles to mine cryptocurrency, and persist across reboots in ways that make detection and removal tricky.
Background
FileTour is not a...
So hey guys, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation here. So I booted up my computer on Monday, loaded fine and everything seemed to work until i tried opening the file explorer, when boom error message.
Being an Com Sci major and having some experience with viruses and windows misbehaving, I...
when I go onto Firefox or IE the start up page is launchpage.org , I have tried using Hijack This, Windows Malicious software ,Microsoft Security Essentials but nothing seems to be able to remove it for me, so I am hoping that someone here might know a EASY way for me to get rid of it please...
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I can't seem to find help online on how to remove this Lucky Starting Virus. It changes my Chrome browser homepage to a Lucky Starting webpage as the name implies.
I downloaded Malwarebytes and it removed infected files but after 1 day it came back.
Can anyone please help?
After installing another piece of software, I accidentally installed a bunch of adware as well. I was able to remove almost everything permanently except for the Funnysearching browser hijacker. My anti-malware programs (Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool, Malwarebytes, and Avast!) say that they...
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Hi,
Blank Screen after login!
I wonder if anyone can help....
I had some malware/adware downloaded and although having removed it I now have this error..
a blank screen AFTER logging into my user account - I have tried creating a second user account I get the same....
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Hi! Sense we don't have a malware team here on the forum, here's some great tools you can use to clean a infected PC. I have used all of them and they get the job done. Rather then me listing the software, this link does the job for me!;);)
Please add any programs that you use and recommend. If...
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I’m trying to fix my elderly mother-in-law’s Lenovo desktop that will not boot. It’s got Win 8.1 w/Bing and is about 13 months old. (Please skip to last paragraph if you don’t want to read all the background story)
Long story short, this is what happened. It was running fine until yesterday...
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So i got back home from the beach from a school field trip this weekend and my nephew was home all day i let him use my computer and he tried downloading a game on my computer illegally but instead he got a bunch of adware and who knows what else this computer might hold now. There's adware in...
I suppose my foray into Torrents ended up causing me a few minor problems. It might be fun to try to remove whatever is actually causing this, but Malware Bytes has found problems prior and these are recent so the problem endures.
If I wanted to try to remove the problem, any suggestions...
Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out, security researchers said...
Original release date: February 20, 2015
Systems Affected
Lenovo consumer PCs that have Superfish VisualDiscovery installed and potentially others.
Overview
Superfish adware installed on some Lenovo PCs install a non-unique trusted root certification authority (CA) certificate, allowing an...
I keep on getting ads from BrowseStudio and other ad sites. They appear in the lower right, left and lower center of my browser (any browser Firefox or IE). The BrowseStudio also adds a "Related Searches" bar to the left of my screen. I think I this came in when I installed Adobe Flash Player...
Problems: Your computer has been infiltrated with browser redirection malware. This redirection malware often jumps you over to to a fake Java website which is a phishing scam. Once you arrive on this page, by clicking on a hyperlink and being redirected, do not click on anything on that page...
I have Malwarebytes and Windows Defender as my protectors. I am trying to remove Trovi.com. I keep getting this annoying website with more tabs. I have tried to eliminate it several times, without luck. Every time I think it's gone, it comes back. When I Google info on uninstalling it I get...