Astromeda hijack

cyclonebri1

Yet again my good lady has managed to download some parasitic crap attached to a game.
I think Pennybee was the culprit and the pup (only know what that means from a net search just now)is an astromeda.com search engine.

I've uninstalled all traces of the 2 items, even had to close down Kaspersky Pure to do this as it's convinced KP that it's friendly.

Searched the net so realise what it is but after trying MS Fixit, Revouninstaller and Adwcleaner I still can't "hit" it:mad::mad:

If anyone can advise I'd be grateful, but be aware I'm not technically savvy in this field and am about at my limit here.

Thanks in advance.

dogmaryxx

Try Junkware Removal Tool

cyclonebri1

took hours but doesn't work.

AlecEiffel

Try this?


http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-astromenda-virus/

Gillor

And this

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-pennybee-virus/

cyclonebri1

Well it seems by methodically working through all that stuff I had managed to clear it from all but google chrome, simply disposing of that and re loading fixed thing, cheers chap/esses

Brunbjorn

Astromenda is a VERY nasty piece of rubbish. I inadvertently acquired it a while ago on my Windows system and spent a while trying to uninstal it.

In the end I restarted Windows in 'Safe Mode', and was then able to uninstal it - but Astromenda still kept appearing in the internet search box, and I had to clear it from there as well, and restore the normal Google default.

The fact that Astromenda is able to get into your system at all suggests to me that internet security packages see it more as an annoyance than anything else (I have Norton and still got Astromenda dumped on my system)

Kanati

Pennybee is an unwanted program that can bring into astromenda search browser hijacker. My friend got infected with the astromenda browser hijacker, but luckily he removed it successfully by following a video guide at YouTube and a removal instruction.

cyclonebri1

dogmaryxx wrote: »

Try Junkware Removal Tool

Well actually after a day or so's more trying it did work, but what a !!!!!! to remove, cheers

dogmaryxx

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Well actually after a day or so's more trying it did work, but what a !!!!!! to remove, cheers

Don't know what you had trouble with but JRT is not installed and you only need to remove the download.

Kanati

You might install malicious software onto your PC. To get rid of Astromeda, you'd better take steps check out the programs that you have installed recently.