help with annoying malware

adbp1 · 26 Mar 2017 at 17:13

Hi folks,

I stupidly let my nephew use my pc, now i seem to have some malware on my internet browsers.
every time i open a page it brings up a new page of spam/adverts etc

I have ran malware-bytes and security essentials with no results, I have reset firefox and ran ccleaner to clear all cache and cookies etc but the malware is still there.

pages like dailychance-info and launchpage.org keep popping up

any help or advice please

Ali

adbp1 · 27 Mar 2017 at 14:47

So I finally got my pc to boot into safe mode after 3rd attempt, malwarebytes found stuff and said it removed it but when i booted into normal mode it was still there, adwcleaner seem to do the job and so far it looks ok.
im gonna run all the others as suggested anyway, I also got sophos anti-virus from I.T guys at work for free so im no longer running ms essentials ( it was free being part of the uni)

thanks for your help and advice.
Ali

adbp1 · 27 Mar 2017 at 19:07

nox_uk said:
has your nephew managed to get your credit card details yet from the adware he installed?

no thank god! but the game he got is pretty addictive !!! (raft)

adbp1 · 29 Mar 2017 at 10:25

i only use firefox, dont think ive even got IE installed!
ive had a google around and checked places where people recommend and it seems ok, I plan on upgrading to win10 soon'ish anyway so will be fresh install.