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Chrome is "unable to connect to proxy server" and Firefox redirects problems
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve62" data-source="post: 427988" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>I think I may be clear of this malware. After deleting chrome & firefox, but before I reboot the system I used sysinternals autoruns and ccleaner and regedit to purge my system of all remnants of chrome & firefox and their extensions. Plus I found many registry entries that were very suspicious including one pointing to dv.exe so I deleted them. After the reboot and reinstalling chrome, chrome no longer warns me about an application adding an extension. Firefox now loads a page (espn.go.com) with a "normal" amount of ads and if I click on subsequent links they open without opening secondary tabs. Also, there is no longer the constant flickering while the page rerenders or whatever it was doing.</p><p></p><p>What a relief this is but what a waste of 3 - 4 days of our time.</p><p></p><p>I plan to look at my other two machines later today for signs they may have issues although I suspect if they did, then I would have seen the same browser behavior. Can I run the Zoek.exe on a Windows 8.1 machine?</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your help through this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve62, post: 427988, member: 40658"] I think I may be clear of this malware. After deleting chrome & firefox, but before I reboot the system I used sysinternals autoruns and ccleaner and regedit to purge my system of all remnants of chrome & firefox and their extensions. Plus I found many registry entries that were very suspicious including one pointing to dv.exe so I deleted them. After the reboot and reinstalling chrome, chrome no longer warns me about an application adding an extension. Firefox now loads a page (espn.go.com) with a "normal" amount of ads and if I click on subsequent links they open without opening secondary tabs. Also, there is no longer the constant flickering while the page rerenders or whatever it was doing. What a relief this is but what a waste of 3 - 4 days of our time. I plan to look at my other two machines later today for signs they may have issues although I suspect if they did, then I would have seen the same browser behavior. Can I run the Zoek.exe on a Windows 8.1 machine? Thanks for your help through this. [/QUOTE]
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