I recently posted a thread regarding a DNS hijack (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=220802.0;topicseen). Not much can be garnered through the responses and the vulnerability is supposedly only exploitable by someone being in range of the router. The safeguard of a long router admin password was something I had anticipated when I first got the router and changed once after a period of time. I remain dubious as to whether the vulnerability is exploitable by more than just in range hijacking or not.
Going further, I recently went through a thorough process with a malware advisor through the Bleeping computer forum and my computer was found to be clean. My Heimdal program kept finding those same to DNS hijack domains that my Avast Premier found,
Popcash.net and Onclickads.net, on a daily basis and my DNS server keeps redirecting even after I flushed the DNS and changed the server to something else, whilst real site protecting keeps turning itself off automatically every time after I manually turn it back on.
I run all the necessary security programs and it finds nothing, aside from the DNS.hijack showing up again in my Zemana program and a number of chrome shortcuts. I flush the DNS and reset chrome settings and still they re-appear eventually. As mentioned in the other post above. I don’t know why I get the two above drive-by exploits mentioned every day or why my DNS keeps redirecting no matter what I do or whether it’s something I should not be worried about.
Does anyone have any advice on the matter?
Thank you.