Filthy Porn page kidnaps my Comp.

[Tburg]

On a periodic basis when I reboot or bring my computer out of Hibernate, a very bad porn page has taken-over. I never go to these type of sites and haven't got a clue how I got this.
The only way I can get back control of my computer is to Ctrl/Alt/Del then click on Sign Out. Then signin again. This works for a couple of days then back to the old porn.
I run Kaspersky deep scans and every other scan I can think of.
Is there any other way, short of formatting the hard drive, to get total control of my computer.
Hope you can help.
Tburg

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Did you try a Malwarebytes scan? Also check startup processes.

 

[mjslakeridge]

If Malwarebytes or other software cannot detect and delete the malware, a clean install would be my recommendation. Then, once all of your programs are re-installed, make an image of the operating system drive (I use Acronis True Image Home) and store it somewhere else (a different computer, an external HDD). If you ever get infected again and can't seem to remove the malware, it takes only a short time to get back up and running. I make backups about every month or so and keep the 2-3 most recent.

 

[Tburg]

Did you try a Malwarebytes scan? Also check startup processes.

Yes, I tried Malwarebytes.__Clean.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "check startup processes".

 

[Tburg]

If Malwarebytes or other software cannot detect and delete the malware, a clean install would be my recommendation. Then, once all of your programs are re-installed, make an image of the operating system drive (I use Acronis True Image Home) and store it somewhere else (a different computer, an external HDD). If you ever get infected again and can't seem to remove the malware, it takes only a short time to get back up and running. I make backups about every month or so and keep the 2-3 most recent.

Good advice. And I will take it if I can't get rid of the crap. I won't do anything for a week of so, then will consider a format.
Thanks to you and Mr. Kagouris.
T.

 

[mjslakeridge]

You can get malware even if you don't visit sketchy websites. I opened an email that appeared to be from a relative, but it wasn't (I normally check the full header, but didn't that time) and I got infected. Windows defender did detect the virus, and supposedly deleted it, but it kept coming back, so I just restored from a disk image from a month before. Took about 15 minutes, but I don't keep a bunch of programs on the OS drive so the disk image was only about 20GB or so. With the Acronis backup software, I can exclude specific file types or directories if I really don't need them backed up.