By Staff [MANDATORY] Preparation Guide Before Requesting Malware Removal Help

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Hi and welcome to MalwareTips Malware Removal Forum. If you are reading this, then you are probably seeking help or feel infected. Over 5000 topics have been posted in this forum and most of them have reached a successful conclusion. All instructions are very simple and you need only basic computer skills in order to get your problem solved along with us.

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Also, be advised:

• You're being helped by volunteers who dedicate their free time (when they are available) to help you free of charge, so please have that in mind by being patient (your help request won't be overlooked) and kind and by showing some respect and appreciation to them. If you cannot control your feelings and you are not satisfied with the help in any way, then you can always reach for your pocket and pay for the expensive help in your local PC repair shop.
  
  
• It is not our intent to repeatedly remove malware from the same member's machines. The intent of this free service performed by volunteers is to help remove malware from your machine, educate you on how it may have happened, and how to prevent that from happening again.
  
  
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Due to the high possibility of reinfection and illegality, we won't support any piracy.

That being told, if any evidence of illegal OS, software, cracks/keygens or any other will be revealed, any further assistance will be suspended. If you are aware that there is this kind of stuff on your machine, remove it before proceeding!
If we spot signs of piracy, your topic will be closed and you won't be able to receive any assistance in the future.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in closing your topic and withdrawing any assistance.​

Step 1. Scan your PC with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

You can get Malwarebytes downloaded from the link below:

Malwarebytes for Windows

follow the following instruction ..:

Run Malwarebytes

• If you already have Malwarebytes installed then open Malwarebytes and click on the small gear icon, or the Settings from the left side panel, then click on the "Check for updates" button on the General tab.
• After any updates, click the middle Scan button from the main page. It will automatically run a Threat Scan.
• If you don't have Malwarebytes installed yet, please download it from here or alternative link and install it.
• Once installed then open Malwarebytes and select Scan and let it run.
• Once the scan is completed, make sure you have it quarantine any detections it finds.
• If no detections were found click on the Save results drop-down, then the Export to TXT button, and save the file as a Text file to your desktop or other location you can find and attach that log on your next reply.
• If there were detections then once the quarantine has completed click on the View report button, Then click the Export drop-down, then the Export to TXT button, and save the file as a Text file to your desktop or other location you can find and attach that log on your next reply.
• If the computer restarted to quarantine you can access the logs from the Detection History, then the History tab. Highlight the most recent scan and double-click to open it. Then click the Export drop-down, then the Export to TXT button, and save the file as a Text file to your desktop or other location you can find and attach that log on your next reply.
• If Malwarebytes won't run then please skip to the next step and let us know in your next reply that the scanner would not run.

Please attach the content of this log in your next answer.Continue with the next step.




Step 2. Download and run FRST


Download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool and save it to your desktop. --> IMPORTANT

If your antivirus software detects the tool as malicious, it’s safe to allow FRST to run. It is a false-positive detection.
If English is not your primary language, right click on FRST.exe/FRST64.exe and rename to FRSTEnglish.exe/FRST64English.exe

Note: You need to run the version compatible 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 the FRST icon to run the tool. When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
• Press Scan button and wait for a while.
• The scanner will produced two logs on your Desktop: FRST.txt and Addition.txt.
• Please attach the content of these two logs in your next reply.

Step 3. Attach FRST reports from step 2


After you generated the reports from both of the two tools, you need to attach them. There is a button when posting your topic. Use it to attach all reports.

If you have difficulties to attach the reports, just open them, and copy their content into the topic.




Step 4. Enable topic reply notification


In order to be notified via email when your topic has a reply, you need to enable topic notifications. To enable topic notifications you should do the following:

1. Click on Preferences.
2. Put a checkmark in the checkbox labeled Automatically watch threads that you create or when you reply... and receive email notifications of replies.
3. Click on the Save Changes button.

If you receive no email within 24 hours, check your spam folder.

 

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