Adware.Elex.ShrtCln

tony6403

I have tried Malwarebytes , Kaspersky , Defender and Avast but cannot get rid of the popups from this irritating infection.
I have altered Chrome settings to no avail.
Whatever is causing this seems to disable Windows Defender which indicates that it is "blocked by group policy".
I can enable Defender with a reg command but it is disabled when I start up.
I'm baffled.

esuhl

I'd try adwCleaner (now owned by MalwareBytes), then create a Rescue Disc in Avast and boot from that.

DesertWind

Try Emsisoft Emergency Kit the ultimate free anti-malware and antivirus tool to scan, detect and remove viruses, keyloggers and other malware threats.

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/

AndyPix

I usually find that ADW cleaner finds bits and bobs that Malwarebytes et al seem to miss.


It seems to be better at purging reg keys and scheduled tasks that cause reinfection.


How is the infection presenting ?
Are you getting popups from the desktop (sys tray area) or only when browsing ?
Does this affect only chrome ?

tony6403

AndyPix wrote: »

I usually find that ADW cleaner finds bits and bobs that Malwarebytes et al seem to miss.


It seems to be better at purging reg keys and scheduled tasks that cause reinfection.


How is the infection presenting ?
Are you getting popups from the desktop (sys tray area) or only when browsing ?
Does this affect only chrome ?

Thanks , I'll try ADWC .
Getting mainly CNet ads only on Chrome when browsing.
Btw Malwarebytes finds it and quarantines but it comes back on restart.

tony6403

DesertWind wrote: »

Try Emsisoft Emergency Kit the ultimate free anti-malware and antivirus tool to scan, detect and remove viruses, keyloggers and other malware threats.

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/

Thankyou.
Just ran that tool and it found and removed malware that has not shown on other scans.
But didn't get the one I was after !

aliEnRIK

There used to be happier times when people would be all over this helping the OP

DoaM

There also used to be happier times when MSE didn't PPR people for nonsensical infractions - i.e. nuisance people would report the helpful people and MSE would actually review the report before acting on it.

Then came the time of fire and forget - if a report was made MSE would just apply an infraction card without even checking if the report wasn't just nuisance-making - so the helpful people ended up getting PPRd, got fed up with it and left.

That's your answer (IMHO).

onomatopoeia99

aliEnRIK wrote: »

There used to be happier times when people would be all over this helping the OP

They are all busy changing their passwords.

AndyPix

Eh ?


People have helped - awaiting feedback ..


Are you going to offer help ?

Cornucopia

There's a well-documented dialog here about removal of this PUP...

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/214310-adwareelexshrtcln-keeps-returning/?page=3