I am another having a problem with Avast reporting a problem with clickred.com. Pops up three or four times in succession about every 10 minutes.
I have followed the instructions in the “Logs to assist in cleaning malware thread” I ran Malwarebytes which showed nothing. I then ran FRST and the two log files are attached. Finally ran aswMBR.exe and the log file is also attached.
Please include the contents of that file in your reply.
Do not forget to re-enable your previously switched off protection software!
Please also manually reboot your machine after this procedure.
Thanks for the prompt reply. I followed the instructions for JRT and after a reboot Avast was still giving me the warnings for clickred.com. I then ran AdwCleaner and it looks like it has solved the problem. I have attached the logs from both programs for information.
XP users click run after receipt of Windows Security Warning - Open File. 8 users will be prompted about Windows SmartScreen protection - click More information and Run.
[*]Make sure that Addition option is checked.
[*]Press Scan button and wait.
[*]The tool will produce two logfiles on your desktop: FRST.txt and Addition.txt.
Hi and I’m very sorry for the delay. I had a short-circuit accident which deeply fried my home PC’s hard drive. As you may know, it’s quite hard to run a PC without it
I have no idea. I do have a legal copy of Photoshop Elements 11 installed though, and a not entirely legal copy of Photoshop Lightroom, but this has been installed for a couple of years without causing any problems.
Not entirely legal copy of photoshop could explain that. I’m sorry - I don’t support piracy and cannot help you further. Any help from me will be suspended until illegally obtained soft is removed from that machine.
Right, so I have un-installed Lightroom and all other software on the PC is legitimate. I don’t condone software piracy and it seems that the copy of Lightroom was installed by someone else 3 years ago.
Strangely, in the hour or so that the PC was being used before removing the software there have been no pop-ups from Avast warning clickred.com.
I have done nothing else apart from running CKScanner as instructed two days ago. Does this seem right to you?