Hi, for the past few weeks I’ve been getting random tabs and windows in Chrome that redirect me to either commercials, scam websites, and most recently porn sites. I’ve tried a normal Malwarebytes scan and nothing came up. But I’ve attached the log of a Malwarebytes threat scan, Farbar Recovery Scan Tool logs, and aswMBR.exe log.
I downloaded and installed Avast yesterday and it’s been giving me the Infection: URL:Mal warnings all morning.
Uninstall Chrome
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.
Note: When asked about user data or settings you must remove this also so please check the box.
Restart the computer.
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:
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that
FINALLY
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[S0].txt as well.