Hey guys! So about a week ago I unknowingly installed conduit on my PC. I didn’t know why the toolbar kept showing up and when my system performance began to deteriorate, I ran another scan with malwarebytes and found a bunch of PUPs. I got rid of them and I thought everything was fine. Then three days later, avast, nor malwarebytes wouldn’t startup and I became really scared. In an attempt to wipe this virus off the system I backed up my important documents onto my flash drive and did a system recovery/reset my pc. It’s all new now, so my question is, do I have anything to worry about? There are viruses out there that can evade powerful scans like avasts, or malwarebytes. If this is the case, how can I get these buggers off my PC?
Attach your logs. (MBAM, OTL and aswMBR…!!)
Instructions: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
conduit is not a virus but classed as PUP = not virus / Possible Unwanted Program, usually crap that comes bundled with freeware downloads
avast PUP scan is default off exept for in boot scan…
i recomend using Malwarebytes for removing them
some info
The default action for PUP detections is 'Show in results list and do not check for removal."
https://helpdesk.malwarebytes.org/entries/23482988-What-are-the-PUP-detections-are-they-threats-and-should-they-be-deleted-
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/news/2013/09/selecting-all-pups/
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/news/2013/07/malwarebytes-adopts-aggressive-pup-policy/
this may save you from some of them installing. Unchecky http://unchecky.com
Thanks for the quick replies! I got to head out to church atm, but I will do these things ASAP when I get home!!! Thank you!