- Jul 9, 2015
- 4
On July 6th, I downloaded a pre-cracked EaseUs Data Recovery Wizard. My firewall warmed me of malware and I deleted the package before opening it for set up. But my chrome started popping up ads and redirected links since then. For example, when I typed "bank of america" in Chrome, it used to just search in Google, but now it would search results in Google AND pop up another window with results from another search engine. It has also popped up adcash and porn sites... These have never happened before.
On July 8th, I went through all the steps Stelian Pilici posted in "Remove Cdn.adsrvmedia.net pop-up virus (Removal Guide)". I didn't have any adware program to uninstall, but I downloaded AdwCleaner, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and Hitmanpro. Malwarebytes' scan result quarantined Trojan Agent located in Thunder (Thunder is a download agent, but I have deleted it over a year ago...). The Trojan Agent was a registry key. Hitmanpro deleted cookies from chrome that were all ad sites (such as the ones I mentioned above). I took a look at the Chrome setting--extensions, and there were no unknown extensions.
I also read another thread and repaired modified hosts files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc --hosts, and deleted an extra line under
127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 (According to the thread, this should be the last line)
I now added Adblock on Chrome. No ads/other search results have popped up. Adblock shows that on July 9th (today) it has blocked over 10 ads. If there were no malware on my computer anymore, shouldn't it be blocking none? When I type "Bank of America" in Chrome and hit search, Adblock would immediately show that it is blocking an ad, and I assume it would be pop up from another search engine.
On July 8th, I went through all the steps Stelian Pilici posted in "Remove Cdn.adsrvmedia.net pop-up virus (Removal Guide)". I didn't have any adware program to uninstall, but I downloaded AdwCleaner, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and Hitmanpro. Malwarebytes' scan result quarantined Trojan Agent located in Thunder (Thunder is a download agent, but I have deleted it over a year ago...). The Trojan Agent was a registry key. Hitmanpro deleted cookies from chrome that were all ad sites (such as the ones I mentioned above). I took a look at the Chrome setting--extensions, and there were no unknown extensions.
I also read another thread and repaired modified hosts files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc --hosts, and deleted an extra line under
127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 (According to the thread, this should be the last line)
I now added Adblock on Chrome. No ads/other search results have popped up. Adblock shows that on July 9th (today) it has blocked over 10 ads. If there were no malware on my computer anymore, shouldn't it be blocking none? When I type "Bank of America" in Chrome and hit search, Adblock would immediately show that it is blocking an ad, and I assume it would be pop up from another search engine.