Specifically, I'm hoping that someone who has done battle with this successfully can tall me exactly where it hides: as in folders & filenames. This thing has rendered one of my browsers completely useless and very possibly unrecoverable, on a Win-10 Pro x64 system at home. . I'm hoping that the infection is strictly localized to this browser (Vivaldi), because it has not manifested at all -- so far -- in the built in Edge browser, nor in a couple others on the system, at east one of which is a portable edition and therefore not interacting with the Registry. About 3 years back, I expunged this same malware from a Win-7 office computer, using an earlier version of this guide: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/malware-removal-guide-for-windows/ but having gone about halfway through the updated edition nothing has worked so far. None of this roster of tools has managed to find much less remove it. But if I could pinpoint where it lives, maybe I could kill it. I'm thinking that it must hide backup(s), in order to keep propagating. The malware is triggered whenever the browser is opened. Once that happens, the fake Mcafee alert screens pop up, the browser becomes completely inoperable and the warning screens remain up, surviving even killing the browser in Task Manager. At that point there is no practical recourse other than to reboot the computer. {btw, I have never used any Mcafee product, so it's not like there could be any past connection.) Resetting the browser to Default status -- as that guide recommends -- does not seem to be available, under the prevailing circumstances. (Already wiped the cache, cookies, & browser History. No effect.) I put a fair amount of work into setting up that browser, with preferences, bookmarks, passwords, and some open tabs. So, a better case scenario would involve saving the patient. Hate to have to just toss it all away. After that, I'd like to have some confidence that this malware is truly gone from the system. I've heard of things like Tron Script, but am wary of causing unintended harm in trying to salvage this.
We don't do malware cleaning anymore on the forum (see here) https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...-malware-cleaning-services.42148/#post-222776 I suggest you start a thread at one of the malware cleaning threads forums here https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/f/22/virus-trojan-spyware-and-malware-removal-help/ or here https://forums.malwarebytes.com/forum/7-windows-malware-removal-help-support/ Let us know how you get on.
Running Malwarebytes AdwCleaner would be a good starting point. If that doesn't help, do ask for help at one of the links stapp provided. https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner
