JoniCoupon won't go away

[Emily Fender]

First off, the AdwCleaner log is attached.

All of this started about 8-10 months ago with my Mozilla Firefox browser. I had an adbot that was rather stubborn and provided me with many advertisement banners and pop-up ads. Eventually when I was frustrated enough, I threw up my hands and ditched my wrecked browser for Google Chrome. It had been running smoothly until a few months ago, maybe 3-4 months ago. Then I started to get even more ad banners and pop-up ads, but this time I was also getting hyperlinks through text and some that would pop up through mousing over pictures, and also ones that would appear anchored to the sidebar of the window and along the bottom of the window. It started out as many different providers ("Ad provided by _______") but I weeded out a few.
As of a few weeks ago, I started to notice that when I would click the x's to close the ads, it would take me to a new pop-up tab that usually was either a generic ad or a "Your computer is in danger, download this now!" sort of ad. Before then my computer had been very good about blocking pop-ups, although I don't know if this technically falls under pop-ups.
Since then, I have ran two scans of Malwarebytes (a 30-day trial version and the free version), Hittman Pro once, and AdwCleaner once (the log is attached). On top of that, I have searched through my browser extensions (on both Firefox and Chrome) and deleted almost everything, and absolutely anything that looked even slightly sketchy. I've also gone through my programs section on the control panel and uninstalled many programs, going through lists provided on various help-sites and also uninstalling ones I don't remember downloading.

I really just am sick of having so many ads pop up whenever I go to a new page and would like to get this off my computer. This has been beyond frustrating as I feel like I have done everything I can do, all of the programs tell me that my computer is now clean but the ads still pop up. If you need additional information about my computer or browser or whatever, please let me know.


Thank you so much!

 

[argus]

Scan with Farbar Recovery Scan Tool

Please download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool and save it to your desktop.

Note: You need to run the version compatibale with your system. If you are not sure which version applies to your system download both of them and try to run them.
Only one of them will run on your system, that will be the right version.

• Double-click to run it. When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
• Press Scan button.
• It will make a log (FRST.txt) in the same directory the tool is run. Please attach it to your reply.
• The first time the tool is run, it makes also another log (Addition.txt). Please attach it to your reply.

 

[Emily Fender]

I ran FRST (files attached), refreshed my browser and all of the ads are still here. What next?

 

[argus]

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Chrome installation is altered by malware. Reinstall is needed.

Scan with ZOEK

Please download ZOEK by Smeenk and save it to your desktop (preferred version is the *.exe one)
Temporary disable your AntiVirus and AntiSpyware protection - instructions here.

• Right-click on
  
  icon and select
  
  Run as Administrator to start the tool.
• Wait patiently until the main console will appear, it may take a minute or two.
• In the main box please paste in the following script:
  

  Quickscan;
  autoclean;

• Make sure that Scan All Users option is checked.
• Push Run Script and wait patiently. The scan may take a couple of minutes.
• When the scan completes, a zoek-results logfile should open in notepad.
• If a reboot is needed, it will be opened after it. You may also find it at your main drive (usually C:\ drive)

Post its content into your next reply.




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Fix with Farbar Recovery Scan Tool

This fix was created for this user for use on that particular machine.

Running it on another one may cause damage and render the system unstable.

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Download attached fixlist.txt file and save it to the Desktop:

Both files, FRST and fixlist.txt have to be in the same location or the fix will not work!

• Right-click on
  
  icon and select
  
  Run as Administrator to start the tool.
  (XP users click run after receipt of Windows Security Warning - Open File).
• Press the Fix button just once and wait.
• If for some reason the tool needs a restart, please make sure you let the system restart normally. After that let the tool complete its run.
• When finished FRST will generate a log on the Desktop, called Fixlog.txt.

Please attach it to your reply.

 

[Emily Fender]

Oh my gosh all of the ads are gone! Thank you so much for all of your help!

 

[argus]

Excellent.


Zoek remove - > right click/delete


Download DelFix by Xplode and save it to your desktop.

• Run the tool by right click on the
  
  icon and Run as administrator option.
• Make sure that these ones are checked:
  • Remove disinfection tools
  • Purge system restore
  • Reset system settings
• Push Run and wait until the tool completes his work.
• All tools we used should be gone. Tool will create an report for you (C:\DelFix.txt)

The tool will also record healthy state of registry and make a backup using ERUNT program in %windir%\ERUNT\DelFix
Tool deletes old system restore points and create a fresh system restore point after cleaning.



Cheers!