What is Au_.exe?

[Akumida]

I have this running when I start Firefox. Basically it seems to try to change my homepage. My 8 year old son has been looking up pokemon and other goofy stuff, and just clicks links randomly despite being told not to...

I can't find anything when I search for 'Au_.exe' on the computer, so I don't know how to remove it. When I did a forget history for the last 24 hours on Firefox, it didn't get rid of this problem. Anybody have any ideas?

 

[Akumida]

I'm not positive it's Au_.exe that's doing the hijacking, but I don't know what else it could be. It's what is displaying when you run Firefox and hit task manager

 

[codygriffy]

I'm not positive it's Au_.exe that's doing the hijacking, but I don't know what else it could be. It's what is displaying when you run Firefox and hit task manager

You should immediately go into your browser's settings/extensions. If anything is in there that shouldn't be, disable it and remove it. If that doesn't work you can actually go into your preference file for firefox and remove unwanted malware from there. Under your settings there should also be a place to set your homepage. Change it to www.google.com, and under your search engines, make sure google.com is at the top of the list or set to default.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1089895

This post seems to be your exact issue.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... Typically if you start seeing your web pages going to random or non selected sites... it means malware could have been installed... can you first try Setting/re-setting Firefox to a different WEB page or default first... to see if it's just a Home/default setting problem? B /

 

[Akumida]

Thanks tons! It was downspeedtest and something else that kept trying to re-install itself. When one deleted, another would regenerate. Fixed so thanks!