Started off with lots of messages from Avast saying that a threat had been detected, even when no browser was open. Did a scan, didn’t change anything. Updated Malwarebytes, did a scan, cleaned up a whole bunch of things, still didn’t stop. Check some forums, ran Adwcleaner and then Junkware Removal Tool. Still didn’t fix it. Did a system restore to a week ago and when it restarted it said the restore had failed. Avast wasn’t working (started after about 5 minutes) and when I tried to re-update Malwarebytes I got an error. Tried downloading Malwarebytes again and the download wouldn’t work. Started it in safemode, then realised that going straight for Malwarebytes might not be the best option. Checked the forums, came back into normal mode to do the Farbar scan and the icons down the bottom are still like they are in Safe Mode.
Pretty sure that’s everything I did in order. Also pretty sure it all started from my bf’s phone when he plugged it in to download some music onto the laptop.
Save this as fixlist.txt, in the same location as FRST.exe
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that
THEN
Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode onto your desktop.
[*]Close all open programs and internet browsers.
[*]Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool.
[*]Click on Scan.
[*]After the scan is complete click on “Clean”
[*]Confirm each time with Ok.
[*]Your computer will be rebooted automatically. A text file will open after the restart.
[*]Please post the content of that logfile with your next answer.
[*]You can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[S1].txt as well.
The websites from the Avast warnings were hxxp://cdnrep.reimage.com/protector/ProtectorPackage2004x64.exe and hxxp://i2.superstoragemy.com/addons/agup.exe
Open Display Settings by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, clicking Personalization, and then clicking Display Settings.
Under Resolution, move the slider to the resolution you want, and then click Apply.
Malwarebytes is still doing weird stuff as well. I tried to open it, came up with the same error. Tried to download it again and it wouldn’t install, since it was already installed. Tried to uninstall it, wouldn’t do it.
I would recommend that you install this for next time the phone is plugged in
Download MCShield to your desktop and install
It will initially run a scan and show the result as a toaster by the system clock
Then in the control centre select scanner and tick unhide items on flash drives