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help getting rid of adcash.com malware

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July 29, 2014 1:49:19 PM

hey guys and gals,

I've been getting these annoying pop ups from adcash.com in chrome (i don't use other browsers)

i don't remember installing anything suspicious in the last few weeks. I've ran full scan with eset smart security, malewarebytes anti-malware and spybot, and all found nothing.

I've looked for tutorials online and none seem to help (i checked around 10 of them)

please help, this is REALLY annoying

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July 29, 2014 2:04:43 PM

One of the ways:
1.Open Google Chrome
2.type in the address bar: http://chrome:extensions or (Goto the 3 stripes in the top right corner, select Settings and on the left side: Extensions)
3.Remove Media Watch, Media Player, Media View, BetterSurf, WebExp Enhanced extension by clicking the trash can trash_can_icon_google_chrome icon, right next to the browser extension.
4.Restart Google Chrome
For Windows 7
Go to Control Panel, Uninstall my programs and unninstall Media Watch, Media Player, Media View, BetterSurf, WebExp Enhanced and that's it~!
For better results, do both of these.
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July 29, 2014 2:18:15 PM

mikac2014 said:
One of the ways:
1.Open Google Chrome
2.type in the address bar: http://chrome:extensions or (Goto the 3 stripes in the top right corner, select Settings and on the left side: Extensions)
3.Remove Media Watch, Media Player, Media View, BetterSurf, WebExp Enhanced extension by clicking the trash can trash_can_icon_google_chrome icon, right next to the browser extension.
4.Restart Google Chrome
For Windows 7
Go to Control Panel, Uninstall my programs and unninstall Media Watch, Media Player, Media View, BetterSurf, WebExp Enhanced and that's it~!
For better results, do both of these.


i dont see any of these no in the remove programs and not in extensions
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July 30, 2014 12:10:31 AM

did they find anything at all and did you get rid of what they found.sorry,shouldve got you to post a log from each.
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July 30, 2014 1:21:27 AM

aldan said:
did they find anything at all and did you get rid of what they found.sorry,shouldve got you to post a log from each.


adw found 2 registry keys "coupling" or something. They were removed and nothing's changed. the other found nothing.
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July 30, 2014 7:28:02 AM

well damn its a stubborn one.i found this guide for removal here.if you follow the steps in order it should work for you.if all else fails you can reset your browser to defaults.it talks about this as well.hope it works for you.
http://www.fixyourbrowser.com/removal-instructions/remo...
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July 31, 2014 1:53:11 AM

aldan said:
well damn its a stubborn one.i found this guide for removal here.if you follow the steps in order it should work for you.if all else fails you can reset your browser to defaults.it talks about this as well.hope it works for you.
http://www.fixyourbrowser.com/removal-instructions/remo...


the only thing that worked is resseting the browser settings. turning the extensions on afterwards returned the problem, so at least it's down to that. Weird though because i've been using these extensions for a long time.
this is what i use: Ideas on the culprit anyone?
Adblock Pro
Flashcontrol
My Downloads
IDM integration Module
Google Docs
Tom's Hardware extension
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August 3, 2014 8:25:23 PM

Run thru the link in my signature. It's also a sticky at the top of the forum. If there is an infection, it will remove it. After that, we can work on correcting settings that were changed from the malware.
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August 5, 2014 12:31:51 AM

thanks everyone, problem solved.

Apparently the "My Downloads" extension was removed from the chrome store at some point and started loading the adcash site
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