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Topic: Does anyone here have much experience removing particularly stubborn adware?

Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #48,124

Serious question guys.

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #629,209

Yes, by buying a new computer

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 14 minutes later, 16 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #629,214

@OP
Screencap or gtfo.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #629,216

if you used system restore and went back a week or so before the aforementioned crap started it would possibly disappear

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #629,217

yeah I've removed some shit by running a dozen antimalware things and then some

ZeroAccess is a cocksucker

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 27 minutes later, 48 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #629,224

burn house down

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #629,227

Forget to uncheck the box for the bundled crapware?

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 26 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #629,229

@629,216 (D)
Tried that several times. Thanks anyway.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,262

System restore.

Triptych !!/xkPL9myM joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,276

what have you tried doing

also no i was shocked and appalled to discover the other day when i ran an antivirus scan for the first time that this laptop i have had for a year+ and have used irresponsibly is completely malwarefree
cool

also it's a good idea to regularly back up your everything
i think sim told me to use acronis and that worked really well iirc

Thank you Google joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,295

Type in name of crap you want to get rid of. Web is loaded with suggestions of how to get rid of.
What I hate are sites like Adobe that will bundle junk and you have to unclick a box so it does not download.
Cnet is even more tricky on how they try to force shit so it can take for steps to say NO to them.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,304

@OP
1. Boot up in safe mode with networking
2. Download current clean versions of Malwarebytes and ADWCleaner
3. Install Linux

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 6 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,368

@629,262 (H)
@previous (K)
Tried it.

@629,276 (Triptych !!/xkPL9myM)
> What have you tried doing?

Pretty much everything mentioned on this thread so far.

@629,295 (Thank you Google)
> Type in name of crap you want to get rid of. Web is loaded with suggestions of how to get rid of.

That was the first thing I did.

squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 34 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,375

you might need to use regedit and get rid of some registry keys. if it's a particularly bad one then it's not as straight forward as just antimalware. it would be easier to help if you can tell us what malware you're dealing with or at least what the major symptoms are. i'd guess you first got your browser permanently redirected and then had any existing antimalware broken, correct? so you're basically locked out of doing everything? (task manager is dead, etc.) is that right?

oh man, if that's what's happening you're fucked. no, not really. but it might be a major headache to actually diagnose and remove. is a reinstallation out of the question? i only ask because it sounds like you can't restore.

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #629,382

@629,304 (K)

> 3. Install Linux

lol this

Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #629,494

@629,229 (A)
Sorry for your loss. Buy a new computer.
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