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Posted by Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

[Solved] Virus (Play now radio)

Anybody got any advice on removing this play now radio virus. My AV ran out of trial today and while changing to a new one i seem to have been infected. It repeatedly adds itself to the task manager, disk usage is 100% and it appears to have JS scripts trying to open adverts.

Anybody any experience or advice for this situation?

Update - Decided to wipe system and start over. So now longer have this issue

2 Answers

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I have found a blogpost about this here: http://blog.mitechmate.com/remove-play-now-radio-pop-adware-removal/

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Yeah been through that and still nothing, a lot of these sites that claim to help are also not trustworthy either with a little digging. I fear I may have to wipe the system and spend a few hours installing all my dev tools grrr. Thanks anyway

Dino Paškvan
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Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points
Dino Paškvan
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points

At a first glance, this looks somewhat promising/relevant: https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=143187

Dino Paškvan
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points

From my (limited) experience, Malwarebytes usually does the job.

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Thanks for the tip. I decided to be safe and wipe the lot. Needless to say last pass is now acting up so i now have the boring tasks of resetting passwords for everything in my life.