A nasty piece of malware, it opens Chrome and tries to direct it to a webpage which Avast stops. But does it over and over…ad infinitum. I’ll come home to 20 or 30 open tabs.
However, I did a deep scan yesterday and Avast did not find it. Why is that?
How can I get rid of Red Hunter.xyz using Avast?
A quick search shows how prevalent it is in the cyberverse.
Cheers,
Instructions https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
Attach Malwarebytes and Farbar Recovery Scan Tool logs … 3 logs total
See below the box you write in … Attachments and other options
when done a malware expert will assist you
However, I did a deep scan yesterday and Avast did not find it. [b]Why is that?[/b]NO security program have 100% detection or zero false positives about 400 000 new malicious programs is released evry day :-\ https://www.av-test.org/en/statistics/malware/
your description indicate a browser hijacker / PUP = Possible Unwanted Program
avast PUP detection is default off
I have never heard of this before and a quick search shows that your post is the only reference to it
I will be intrigued to see where it hides
Interesting. I found several references to it some with lengthy explanations for removal and recommending that “Spyhunter” was necessary to clean it.
At any rate - I wiped my drive and loaded a fresh Win 8. I did attempt to use some freeware - eScan - but that created a larger, worse issue so I wiped the drive.
Thanks for your responses!
Cheers,
I could have removed it manually without the need to reformat. None of the removal guides online are worth the page they are printed on as they are generic removal methods or they get you to buy their all singing cleaner which does not work