How To Remove AD Popup VIRUS When Windows Starts Up?

[Shark Dentist]

(I DON'T SUPPORT PIRACY)

I'll just get straight to the point, there was a game I hadn't played in years from like when I was 9 years old and I couldn't seem to find it on any of the digital stores.. so I went to a download free site in hopes of finding it. I found it and saw a load of people wrote in the comments that it was working great and nothing wrong (over 75 people upvoted as opposed to the 0 who downvoted). ..anyway I downloaded it feeling pretty safe and now every time windows starts a chrome browser opens with some russian website even after uninstalling the game. It's driving me crazy! I haven't seen any pc slow-down or problems yet apart from that ad!


Some may say it's karma for downloading a 10 year old game but honestly I just want some help from you guys on tom's hardware to return my pc to it's former clean virus-free self.

Thanks in advance!

(Oh and Malwarebytes found no detections 🙁 )

 

[melissa644]

can you please tell it to me when you have a solution? I have the same problem now and it's driving me crazy. everywhere I click I get this stupid add. I can't even check my social network. since i've tried to delete it I've got everytime i click, no matter what I do, I go to an other site. please help me, this is the only way I could communicate.

 

[deanjo16]

Firstly:

Start > Run > type: msconfig
Go to the "Start up" tab and disable all programs that are displayed here (with exception of anti-virus) & reboot PC


Secondly:
Download a program called rkill from the link below:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/rkill/

Run the program as Admin, it will temporarily kill any malicious processes running on your machine & reset a few broken things.. *DO NOT reboot PC yet*


Thirdly:
Download AdwCleaner from the following link below:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

Run a scan as Admin, scan and remove everything it finds & now reboot your PC


Fourthly (continue if problem hasn't been solved):
Download HitmanPro for your PC using link below:
http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/

Excellent second opinion cloud scanner, run as trial and do a scan, remove anything it finds and reboot PC


Fifthly (continue if problem hasn't been solved):
Reset your HOSTS file, might be redirections in there.

I did everything up to resetting my HOSTS (haven't done that yet).. hitman pro found a few things that I thought was the problem.. cookies called "MLN advertising" etc.. Turned my pc back on after the reboot and the problem is still there 🙁

How do I reset my HOSTS file and will I lose anything important?

Go to run>msconfig>startup tab. Expand the command column and scroll down to see the russian game website under the command column. Mine was called some zivlingamer or gamezonenews if that helps. The name of the startup thing will be hidden under some Microsoft Operating System Software or something. I had the same problem. Hope yours gets solved.