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pop up virus from flixtor.ac any help please?

blaque*angel

blaque*angel Posts: 1,177 Forumite

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3 January 2019 at 11:39AM in Techie Stuff

Hi.

Even though we pay for multiple movie streaming sites my children went onto flixtor.ac, now the laptop is infected with a pop up virus.
Windows defender full scan doesn't find it, but these pop ups keep occuring, It's a new laptop too! sighs...

Any advice on how to remove this?

I tried to restore windows 4 times and it fails!?

Thank you in advance

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dogmaryxx Posts: 2,446 Forumite

3 January 2019 at 1:53PM

http://https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

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[Deleted User] Posts: 5,186 Forumite

3 January 2019 at 2:14PM

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-popup-ads-windows-10/

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Lil306 Posts: 1,692 Forumite

3 January 2019 at 2:36PM

Spybot S&D
Malware Bytes

I'd run them in that order.

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DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite

3 January 2019 at 4:43PM

I'd run MBAM followed by ADWCleaner (both from MalwareBytes).

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debitcardmayhem Posts: 13,194 Forumite

3 January 2019 at 7:40PM

DoaM wrote: »

I'd run MBAM followed by ADWCleaner (both from MalwareBytes).

So would I , perhaps the other way round

Lil306 wrote: »

Spybot S&D
Malware Bytes

I'd run them in that order.

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AndyPix Posts: 4,847 Forumite

4 January 2019 at 10:55AM

OP you dont have a virus - you have likely installed some adware inadvertantly ..

DoaM wrote: »

I'd run MBAM followed by ADWCleaner (both from MalwareBytes).

Follow this advice , reboot and you will be good to go

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maklanist Posts: 1 Newbie

18 March 2019 at 6:12PM

But you guys download any program from such streaming sites. You can't get infected unless you install any program.

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