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<blockquote data-quote="Rayleigh13" data-source="post: 750941" data-attributes="member: 73774"><p>I downloaded a movie from piratebay today and it seems that the movie was scam and fake. <strong>It cannot be played so i opened the codec fix exe file. I did not know that the program was a virus.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>After executing the application, many other programs appeared on my desktop and my browser started to act like crazy. It opens an advertisement site every other minute and is very annoying. Chrome also keeps on displaying ad notifications at the corner of my screen. It never stops even though I already blocked the sites in Chrome's notification settings.</strong></p><p></p><p>I tried <strong>ADWcleaner and uninstalled the programs that the virus installed</strong>. This somewhat solved the problem but the browser still keeps on popping up ads and creating new tabs. I tried <strong>Zemana Anti Malware</strong> but the problem still persists.</p><p></p><p><strong>My laptop also became laggy.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Any help is appreciated.</strong></p><p></p><p>I w<em>ill attach the Zemana logs together with the FRST and the Addition text files.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rayleigh13, post: 750941, member: 73774"] I downloaded a movie from piratebay today and it seems that the movie was scam and fake. [B]It cannot be played so i opened the codec fix exe file. I did not know that the program was a virus.[/B] [B]After executing the application, many other programs appeared on my desktop and my browser started to act like crazy. It opens an advertisement site every other minute and is very annoying. Chrome also keeps on displaying ad notifications at the corner of my screen. It never stops even though I already blocked the sites in Chrome's notification settings.[/B] I tried [B]ADWcleaner and uninstalled the programs that the virus installed[/B]. This somewhat solved the problem but the browser still keeps on popping up ads and creating new tabs. I tried [B]Zemana Anti Malware[/B] but the problem still persists. [B]My laptop also became laggy.[/B] [B]Any help is appreciated.[/B] I w[I]ill attach the Zemana logs together with the FRST and the Addition text files.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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