I’ve had it for little over a month now and just these past two weeks I’ve been getting non-stop warnings whenever I run Chrome. Only Chrome. It’s my preferred search engine of choice so I’ve been trying to figure out what I can do to stop these.
Not sure why, but I can not load any avast forum website on my computer now. I am using my cell which would not load the site either while connected to our wifi but works fine without…
Unless you did this yourself, malware has changed your Chrome version into the Development Build. Among other things this allows malware to install any extension it wants. We need to resolve this.
If you have bookmarks, let’s save them by exporting them - Export Bookmarks
Then I need you to go Google Sync and sign into your account
Scroll down until you see the “Stop and Clear” button and click on the button. At the prompt click on “Ok”
Now we need to uninstall chrome via control panel.
Note: When asked about user data or settings you must remove this also so please check the box.
Restart the computer and reinstall chrome, You can download The latest version from here - Google Chrome
Import your bookmarks back into Chrome
Sign back in to your Chrome browser so that your bookmarks sync with your online account.
THEN
CAUTION : This fix is only valid for this specific machine, using it on another may break your computer
Open notepad and copy/paste the text in the quotebox below into it:
CreateRestorePoint:
CHR HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google: Policy restriction <======= ATTENTION
BHO: No Name -> {0AC1C0B8-12DF-423F-8BFF-396D0E33F87B} -> No File
BHO: No Name -> {8E5E2654-AD2D-48bf-AC2D-D17F00898D06} -> No File
BHO: No Name -> {C948D019-C231-43E1-B6CF-5DEA76F893DA} -> No File
BHO: No Name -> {DEFB75C0-5B77-40C3-A126-9DAC65A3C3BC} -> No File
BHO-x32: No Name -> {8E5E2654-AD2D-48bf-AC2D-D17F00898D06} -> No File
RemoveProxy:
CMD: netsh advfirewall reset
CMD: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state ON
CMD: ipconfig /flushdns
CMD: netsh winsock reset catalog
CMD: netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
CMD: ipconfig /release
CMD: ipconfig /renew
CMD: netsh int ipv4 reset
CMD: netsh int ipv6 reset
EmptyTemp:
CMD: bitsadmin /reset /allusers
Save this as fixlist.txt, in the same location as FRST.exe
I did put myself in Developer Mode under Extensions to try and see where the source of these random extensions were located in my computer, but I couldn’t find the file myself.
Click on the link above to be taken to Unchecky.com
click the very large Download button.
click Save
Click Open folder
Right click on the Unchecky_setup and choose to Run as Administrator
Once open click the Install button.
Then click on Finish
Unchecky is now installed and will help you keep unwanted check boxes unchecked, this is a fire and forget programme
It is critical to have both a firewall and anti virus to protect your system and to keep them updated.
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