what is this

by **curtis89** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:43 pm

For whatever reason my laptop is doing this. Creating random links on stuff and only when I visit the Tankpit website do adds suddenly start to appear in the bottom right. I don't have any of these issues when I'm on facebook or anything. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how do you resolve it?

by **003** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:51 pm

You have acquired some sort of malware, brother.

by **curtis89** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:53 pm

Can you point me in the direction of a possible fix?

Figures after I re-download aim, I get something like this.

by **003** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:17 am

I ended up with this problem a couple years ago and I got it from this forum of all places LOL. We had a series of Russian spam bots attack the forum and I accidentally clicked on one of the links.

I'm pretty sure I got rid of it with my basic antivirus program. I use the paid version of "exterminate it" because it not only finds the problems but eliminates them (the free version just finds them and you have to eliminate them manually). I use "exterminate it" because I had bad luck with Norton, AVG, etc. but some people will tell you Norton is the shit.

It happened to me on Firefox and I've actually been using Chrome ever since but the problem is gone anyways. You may have to re-install your browser though too. I'm not sure since I just switched to using Chrome lol.

by **killer** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:28 am

Malwarebytes bro

by **PRIDE** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:50 am

what browser do you use? chrome - settings > extensions or explorer - manage add ons. and disable any suspicious shit

by **Jaxinc** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:16 am

http://www.malwarebytes.org

by **DemonicTank** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:58 am

killer wrote:Malwarebytes bro

this is a godly anti virus program I recommend everyone has this software, and for the free version you still get virus removal it cleans your computer very nicely.

by **curtis89** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:59 am

I am using chrome. I'm at work now on my phone but I'll check out your guys's recommendations when I get home. I appreciate the help!

by **silent** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:20 pm

I had the same shit happen to me also on chrome, just follow PRIDE's advice about where to go and it'll fix.

by **Headhunters** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:09 pm

silent wrote:I had the same shit happen to me also on chrome, just follow PRIDE's advice about where to go and it'll fix.

ya bro, go to your installed programs in control panel and check out all da programs u downloaded recently and see if there's anything spammy. Then check out your extensions in chrome and delete w/e looks weird.

by **curtis89** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:56 pm

It looks like after two scans from malwarebytes, a few deletions from the control panel, and a restart, the problem has been resolved. Thanks guys!

by **shermanfrombf** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:03 pm

malwarebytes is goat

by **StanDarsh** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:43 am

what is your homepage on chrome, cause it most likely has now changed to a weird search engine.

if it has changed, just google trying to remove that search engine's spyware/malware

by **tournamentJESUS** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:09 pm

you caught some bullshit add-on. simply disable it and then go into your installed programs and find the garbage that sponsors this shit (usually some type of media player or something) and just uninstall it. this happens to me sometimes so I've figured out how to deal with it.

by **DemonicTank** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:56 pm

got to watch those downloads, when downloading something make sure to check CUSTOM DOWNLOAD so you can uncheck those stupid tool bars and shitty addons.