The old search engine hijackers were honestly the worst malware I had to deal with somewhat regurarly
Anything more serious either cleaned up with malwarebytes or warranted reformatting the hard drive, but the hijackers were relatively easy but annoying and tedious to get rid off
To be fair her teaching assistant put it on there and she has a tendency of clicking on everything and just isn’t computer literate at all so it was more of an inevitability than anything. It installed a reskinned Chromium that redirected searched so it wasn’t super bad. is ran MalwareBytes and got a few more possible threats too. Glad it wasn’t anything super severe. I’m out of practice lol.
The old search engine hijackers were honestly the worst malware I had to deal with somewhat regurarly
Anything more serious either cleaned up with malwarebytes or warranted reformatting the hard drive, but the hijackers were relatively easy but annoying and tedious to get rid off
I literally just cleaned up a computer at my wife’s workplace that had a hijacker on it like 2 weeks ago.
It’s honestly impressive how many ways there are to hide those just in the browser’s configs
To be fair her teaching assistant put it on there and she has a tendency of clicking on everything and just isn’t computer literate at all so it was more of an inevitability than anything. It installed a reskinned Chromium that redirected searched so it wasn’t super bad. is ran MalwareBytes and got a few more possible threats too. Glad it wasn’t anything super severe. I’m out of practice lol.
Yeah, thankfully the modern ones are usually pretty easy to clean, I remember searching through configs for variations of the fake search engine