Cannot find much online to help me get rid of this. Ran Malwarebytes and did a full system scan with Avast…found nothing. This warning box pops up every 5 minutes. How can I get rid of it…in easy to understand instructions? Thank you
Download ComboFix from one of the following locations: Link 1 Link 2
VERY IMPORTANT !!! Save ComboFix.exe to your Desktop
IMPORTANT - Disable your AntiVirus and AntiSpyware applications, usually via a right click on the System Tray icon. They may otherwise interfere with our tools. If you have difficulty properly disabling your protective programs, refer to this link here
[*]Double click on ComboFix.exe & follow the prompts.
[*]Accept the disclaimer and allow to update if it asks
Ran Spyhunter also. It found something called “Conduit Search/Toolbar” that appears to be a problem. But apparently I have to buy the full version of Spyhunter to enable it to delete stuff it finds. Not sure I trust this. I also reset my Internet Explorer settings and rebooted my PC, but that did not work. I just don’t know what to do at this point.
Once you are under the care of a malware expert like essexboy, it is probably best not to do anything else other than follow his directions. Spyhunter is considered to be a Trojan Horse in some parts of the Internet, just so you know.
Please wait for essexboy to come back. He wants to help you out, but by going off in a different tangent could slow the cleansing process down a bit, I’m afraid, as the current logs you’ve provided him are not current anymore or valid. He may ask for new logs to see what changed, so…
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.
after I ran FRST and generated the txt file, I still had a pop up warning right after. I then ran the AdwCleaner, and the computer rebooted and generated the AdwCleaner txt file. I then put the PC in sleep mode and left it alone. I wanted to see what you know from the txt files before I touch it again. Thank you.