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<blockquote data-quote="Jgor" data-source="post: 416774" data-attributes="member: 38784"><p>Will do. Bitdefender still scanning the backup drive (24 hrs so far for 3 drives, and backup has large image files of the first 2). Probably won't finish till tomorrow morning at earliest. If you don't hear from me in the next day or two, it's because I'll be pretty busy running around until late this weekend. I'll squeeze in computer time as I can.</p><p></p><p>I'm wondering, with the persistence of some Opera behaviors, plus Firefox doing the same, if this is something embedded in a default user profile that isn't specific to the browser. Any thoughts on that? It seems to be triggered by Opera.exe, and probably the same with FF. Why not with Chrome or IE? Any way to track what might link to that exe? Some kind of batch file? If it's not actually in Opera, reverting the version might not fix the issue. Whatever is causing it isn't cool. Today I've had popups for some kind of (alleged) microsoft partner online fix service (<a href="http://immediatereponseforcomputer" target="_blank">http://immediatereponseforcomputer</a>. /pc-support/) that I suspect is phishing.</p><p></p><p>I still plan to reinstall Opera with the .125 download, then run malwarebits again, but want the scan to complete first. It wouldn't do to clean C drive and have the backup still contaminated. Of course with recent software changes, I'd like to do a fresh image and delete the older ones, but after this spyware is resolved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jgor, post: 416774, member: 38784"] Will do. Bitdefender still scanning the backup drive (24 hrs so far for 3 drives, and backup has large image files of the first 2). Probably won't finish till tomorrow morning at earliest. If you don't hear from me in the next day or two, it's because I'll be pretty busy running around until late this weekend. I'll squeeze in computer time as I can. I'm wondering, with the persistence of some Opera behaviors, plus Firefox doing the same, if this is something embedded in a default user profile that isn't specific to the browser. Any thoughts on that? It seems to be triggered by Opera.exe, and probably the same with FF. Why not with Chrome or IE? Any way to track what might link to that exe? Some kind of batch file? If it's not actually in Opera, reverting the version might not fix the issue. Whatever is causing it isn't cool. Today I've had popups for some kind of (alleged) microsoft partner online fix service ([URL]http://immediatereponseforcomputer[/URL]. /pc-support/) that I suspect is phishing. I still plan to reinstall Opera with the .125 download, then run malwarebits again, but want the scan to complete first. It wouldn't do to clean C drive and have the backup still contaminated. Of course with recent software changes, I'd like to do a fresh image and delete the older ones, but after this spyware is resolved. [/QUOTE]
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