Solved Adware: random ad websites popping up

SejongC

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Mar 10, 2017
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Since 2 days ago, I've been infected with some sort of adware that managed to both change by default start-up page in chrome as well as random websites popping up. Several words in many websites would be highlighted green with underlines and clicking on those would pull up both a separate tab and a separate page, both of which are ad websites.
After running the virus scanners above, it changed back to my normal start-up screen on chrome and every time after I would run the scanner, chrome would act fine, but after restarting it, it would come back (only the random websites/links)
I am getting really confused and irritated on how my scanners say there is nothing there, but then after restarting my computer, it would just come back.
 

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That's because Anti-Malware software doesn't clean the cache but malware. Sometimes there is a cached content poisoned by malware.