HI
I recently downloaded a piece of software throe cent download and my Google chrome search engine had changed to yahoo and i notice also ther are some new extensions installed as well. I than noticed that my task bar is flashing a new software called SearchSettings.exe.
After researching it and establishing that is a browser hijacked, i found a thread on Google forum that suggested to remove the folder in program files containing the SearchSettings.exe and un-installing it.
I did that and removed the extensions and changed the default search engine back to chrome i than scaned the system with my avast software and browser clean-up and run a adw cleaner scan as well.
Every thing looks ok now however im a bit concerned is my browser safe to use now as i use this computer for online banking???
I know, that’s why I said not sure how it does against Toolbars. I wouldn’t mind having a look either. Looking to learn about viruses without actually catching one.
I know what I’m doing, I know the infections, their way of functioning, I am to devoloppeur of tools of desinfection and I have 130 000 comments on other forums of desinfection
No everything looks ok.
The deleting of the SearchSettings.exe and removing extensions in chrome seemed to do the trick and after i scanned the system and run adwcleaner and system restarted it all looked good.
I just want to be certain the computer is safe to use.
Because if there’s doubts i would probably format and reinstall the system however i would prefer not to since it would take ages to instil all the software and games back on